Dumb-bell shaped tuberculous abscess across the greater sciatic notch compressing both sciatic nerves

Spinal Cord

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 584-587

  Baba, H ^a   Okumura, Y ^a   Furusawa, N ^a   Omori, H ^a   Kawahara, H ^a   Fujita, T ^a   Katayama, K ^a   Noriki, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Greater sciatic notch; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Sciatic nerve palsy; Tuberculous abscess

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031830069     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100550     Document Type: Article

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