Postoperative acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after exposure to microfibrillar collagen hemostat: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 149-152

  Sani, Sepehr ^a   Boco, Tibor ^a   Lewis, Steven L ^a   Cochran, Elizabeth ^a   Patel, Ajay J ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; Avitene; Postoperative complication

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGITIS; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COLLAGEN; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS;

EID: 46449106709     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS/2008/109/7/0149     Document Type: Article

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