Nine Cases of Nontraumatic Spinal Epidural Hematoma

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 718-724

  Hejazi, Nedal ^a   Thaper, Paul Yash ^a   Hassler, Werner ^a  

^a Klinikum Kalkweg   (Germany)

Author keywords

decompressive laminectomy; magnetic resonance imaging; myelography; neurological outcome; spinal epidural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; PARAPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0031797913     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.718     Document Type: Article

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