Symptomatic spinal arachnoid cyst triggered by seat belt injury - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 168-172

  Honda, Eiichiro ^c   Fujisawa, Hironori ^a   Koyama, Tunemaro ^a   Oshima, Yuki ^c   Sugita, Yasuo ^b   Abe, Toshi ^b  

^a Ohtsu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Ohshima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Myelography; Seat belt injury; Septum posticum; Spinal arachnoid cyst

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CYST; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEATBELT INJURY; SPINAL ARACHNOID; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0031940033     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.168     Document Type: Article

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