Brown-Séquard syndrome following removal of a cerebrospinal fluid drainage catheter after thoracic aortic surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 322-324

  Puchakalaya, Madhusudan Rao ^a,b   Tremper, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 22944453342     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000159374.53195.B4     Document Type: Article

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