Lumbar spinal synovial cyst presenting with neurological deficit: A case report and review of the literature

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 212-216

  Kaneko, Kazuo ^a,b   Inoue, Yukio ^a   Nakano, Yuji ^a   Kikuchi, Ken ^a   Uta, Souichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lumbar spine; Synovial cyst

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGERY;

LUMBAR SPINAL SYNOVIAL CYST; MYELOGRAPHY;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SYNOVIAL CYST;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELOGRAPHY; PARESTHESIA; SPINAL DISEASES; SYNOVIAL CYST;

EID: 0033490675     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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