Epidural venous plexus enlargements presenting with radiculopathy and back pain in patients with inferior vena cava obstruction or occlusion

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2419-2424

  Paksoy, Yahya ^a   Gormus, Niyazi ^b  

^a Ultra Goruntuleme Merkezi   (Turkey)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidural varices; Epidural vein; Inferior vena cava; Low back pain; Radicular pain

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EPIDURAL VEIN; EPIDURAL VENOUS PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AZYGOS VEIN; BACK PAIN; BEHCET SYNDROME; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATICA; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SPINAL STENOSIS; THROMBECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 14844360677     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000144354.36449.2f     Document Type: Article

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