Lack of epidural pressure change with neck flexion in a patient with Hirayama disease: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Patel, Tanmay R ^a   Chiocca, E Antonio ^a   Freimer, Miriam L ^a   Christoforidis, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 627 Means Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile spinal muscular atrophy; Myelopathy; Phlebography; Spine; Venous pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURA MATER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FOLLOW UP; HAND MUSCLE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HIRAYAMA DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; JUVENILE SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; ORTHOSIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VENOUS PRESSURE; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NECK MUSCLES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 68049084745     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000345951.24132.7F     Document Type: Article

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