Epidural venous enlargements presenting with intractable lower back pain and sciatica in a patient with absence of the infrarenal inferior vena cava and bilateral deep venous thrombosis

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Dudeck, Oliver ^a   Zeile, Martin ^b   Poellinger, Alexander ^a   Kluhs, Lothar ^a   Ludwig, Wolf Dieter ^a   Hamm, Bernd ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Department of Radiology

Author keywords

Epidural venous enlargements; Inferior vena cava agenesis; Infrarenal segment; Lower back pain; Sciatica

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; AGENESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL VENOUS ENLARGEMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEURALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THROMBOSIS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DISEASE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RENAL VEINS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SCIATICA; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 35848929886     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318158cf94     Document Type: Article

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