Paraplegia due to spinal subdural hematoma as a complication of posterior fossa surgery: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 590-594

  Hicdonmez, Tufan ^a   Kilincer, Cumhur ^a   Hamamcioglu, M Kemal ^a   Cobanoglu, Sebahattin ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complications; Magnetic resonance imaging; Paraplegia; Posterior cranial fossa; Spinal cord compression; Subdural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SKULL SURGERY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33746876035     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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