Gas-filled intradural cyst of the lumbar spine

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 95, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2001, Pages 257-259

  Kawaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Yamashita, Toshihiko ^b   Ida, Kazunori ^b   Ikeda, Tatsuru ^b   Ohwada, Osamu ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cyst; Intradural gas; Lumbar spine; Vacuum disc phenomenon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYST; GAS; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE DISEASE;

CYSTS; GASES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 21544480598     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2001.95.2.0257     Document Type: Article

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