Cauda equina-penetrating injury in a child: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2006, Pages 279-281

  Piqueras, Claudio ^b   Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a   Almagro, María José ^b   De San Pedro, Javier Ros ^b   Tortosa, Pedro Torres ^b   Herrera, Agueda ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cauda equina; Pediatric neurosurgery; Pediatric spine injury; Pencil injury; Spine penetrating injury

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INJURY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SACRUM; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE INJURY; STAB WOUND;

CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SACRUM; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 33646091090     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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