Injury to renal vein during fixation of fractured lumbar spine and subsequent atrophy of kidney in a female patient with spinal cord injury and paraplegia

Spinal Cord

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 527-529

  Vaidyanathan, S ^a   Hughes, P ^a   Sett, P ^a   Oo, T ^a   Soni, B M ^a   Singh, G ^a  

^a District General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY ATROPHY; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN INJURY; LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; VEIN INJURY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL VEINS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 0041328011     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101484     Document Type: Article

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