Improvement of paraplegia caused by spinal dural arteriovenous fistula by surgical obliteration more than 6 years after symptom onset

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1408-1409

  Kaut, O ^a   Urbach, H ^a   Klockgether, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION;

ACYCLOVIR; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; DEXAMETHASONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELITIS; PARAPARESIS; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56749153880     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.145664     Document Type: Article

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