Recurrent Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma in a Child: First Case Report

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-180

  Abram, Harry S ^a   DeLaHunt, Michael J ^a   Merinbaum, Deborah J ^a   Hammond, David N ^a  

^a NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LEG; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL HEMATOMA; THORACIC SPINE;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, SPINAL; HUMANS; PARAPLEGIA; RECURRENCE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33847615764     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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