Gorham-Stout disease of the shoulder girdle and cervico-thoracic spine: Fatal course in a 65-year-old woman

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 724-729

  Bode Lesniewska, B ^a   von Hochstetter, A ^a   Exner, G U ^b   Hodler, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gorham Stout disease; MRI; Radiographs; Shoulder; Spine

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GORHAM STOUT DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOLYSIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER GIRDLE; SPINE MALFORMATION; THORACIC SPINE; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS, ESSENTIAL; SHOULDER JOINT; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036953681     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-002-0568-y     Document Type: Article

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