Paraplegia complicating percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fracture: Case report

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 3 B, 2004, Pages 879-881

  Lopes, Nilo M ^a,b   Lopes, Vinicius K ^b  

^a Serv of Neurology and Neurosurgery   (Spain)

^b Department of Neurosciences ^*

Author keywords

Osteoporosis; Paraplegia; Polymethylmethacrylate; Spinal fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRILL; DROWSINESS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL EXTRAVASATION; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PARAPLEGIA; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSPEDICULAR POLYMETHYLACRYLATE VERTEBROPLASTY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADICULAR PAIN; SEDATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL ROOT; SPINAL ROOT COMPRESSION; STEROID THERAPY; URINE CATHETER; URINE RETENTION; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBROGRAM;

EID: 5444233544     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2004000500027     Document Type: Article

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