The presyrinx state due to adhesive arachnoiditis: A case report

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 500-504

  Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Yagishita, Akira ^a   Taniguchi, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesive arachnoiditis; MRI; Presyrinx state; Spine; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESYRINX STATE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADHESIONS; AGED; ARACHNOID; ARACHNOID CYSTS; ARACHNOIDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33746227381     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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