Functional outcome after experimental cauda equina compression

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 670-674

  Sayegh, Fares E ^a   Kapetanos, George A ^a,b   Symeonides, Pan P ^a   Anogiannakis, George ^a   Madentzidis, Minas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotelian University ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BALLOON CATHETER; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL ROOT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CAUDA EQUINA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030786441     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.79B4.7056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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