A case of pediatric thoracic SCIWORA following minor trauma

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 241-243

  Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Hida, Kazutoshi ^a   Akino, Minoru ^b   Yano, Shunsuke ^b   Saito, Hisatoshi ^b   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyperflexion injury; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; SCIWORA; Spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; GLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOALGESIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPARESIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0036589635     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0560-9     Document Type: Article

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