Atypical clinical presentation of idiophatic thoracic spinal cord herniation

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Senturk, Senem ^a   Guzel, Aslan ^a   Guzel, Ebru ^b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Veni Vidi Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Idiopathic spinal cord herniation; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DERMATOME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD HERNIATION; THORAX PAIN; HERNIA; PATHOLOGY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; CHEST PAIN; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 50649103359     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318178e624     Document Type: Article

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