Quadriplegia caused by cervical hyperextension injury and intramedullary spinal cord tumour: A case report of autopsy

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 377-379

  Fujimura, Yoshikazu ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^b   Kihara, Michiya ^b   Akasaka, Keijirou ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; DYSPNEA; FALLING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINOPLASTY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORACIC SPINE;

EID: 0032104730     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(97)00155-1     Document Type: Article

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