Acute paraplegia after vertebroplasty caused by epidural hemorrhage: A case report

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1827-1831

  Birkenmaier, Christof ^a   Seitz, Sebastian ^a   Wegener, Bernd ^a   Glaser, Christian ^a   Ruge, Maximilian I ^a   Von Liebe, Alessandro ^a   Pellengahr, Christoph Von Schulze ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WALKING;

EID: 34547755706     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.F.01612     Document Type: Article

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