Froin's syndrome revisited, 100 years on. Pseudo-Froin's syndrome on MRI

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 600-604

  Mirza, S ^a   Adams, W M ^a   Corkhill, R A ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EPENDYMOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DERMOID CYST; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40949097255     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.07.027     Document Type: Article

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