Transient cauda equina compression syndrome and headache caused by internal vertebral venous plexus engorgement in a teenage female with vena cava inferior agenesis and iliac vein thrombosis [3]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1283-1284

  Oterdoom, D L M ^a   De Jong, B M ^a   Hoogland, P V J M ^b   Groen, R J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; ILIAC VEIN THROMBOSIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERNAL VERTEBRA VENOUS PLEXUS; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN DISEASE; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS CIRCULATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; RADICULOPATHY; SPINE; THROMBOSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYRADICULOPATHY; SPINE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 35748941658     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.114629     Document Type: Letter

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