A case of a thoracic extradural arachnoid cyst presenting with slowly progressive muscle weakness in the right upper and lower limbs

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-51

  Inoue, Haruhisa ^a   Nishinaka, Kazuto ^a   Urushitani, Makoto ^a   Udaka, Fukashi ^a   Kameyama, Masakuni ^a  

^a SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

a pseudo localizing sign; a thoracic extradural arachnoid cyst; motor neuron disease; stretching; weakness of an upper limb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENDON REFLEX;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; ARM; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; THORAX;

EID: 0029993969     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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