Spinal cord compression in a patient with a pain pump for failed back syndrome: A chalk-like precipitate mimicking a spinal cord neoplasm: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Wadhwa, Rishi K ^a   Shaya, Mark R ^a   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammatory mass; Morphine pump; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; CALCIUM CARBONATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FAILED BACK SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; INFUSION PUMP; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNDROME; VERTEBRA;

AGED; BACK PAIN; BUPIVACAINE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33747132698     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000195070.41751.62     Document Type: Article

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