The epiconus syndrome presenting with radicular-type neurological features

Spinal Cord

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-170

  Toribatake, Yasumitsu ^a   Baba, Hisatoshi ^b   Kawahara, Norio ^a   Mizuno, Katsunori ^a   Tomita, Katsuro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epiconus; Neuroimaging; Neurological symptomatology; Termination of the spinal cord; Thoracolumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TENDON REFLEX; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRA;

EID: 0031056999     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100369     Document Type: Article

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