Spontaneous thoracic spinal cord herniation: A case report

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1710-1713

  Sioutos, Panayiotis ^a,c   Arbit, Ehud ^a   Tsairis, Peter ^b   Gargan, Ruth ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brown Sequard syndrome; congenital dural defect; myelopathy; spontaneous spinal cord herniation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ADULT; BROWN-SEQUARD SYNDROME; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0030057210     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199607150-00019     Document Type: Article

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