A case of spinal cord compression syndrome by a fibrotic mass presenting in a patient with an intrathecal pain management pump system

Pain

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-99

  Langsam, Andrew ^a  

^a Christiana Care Hlth Syst C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Fibroma; Intrathecal infusion pump; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032832145     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(99)00093-7     Document Type: Article

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