Case 148: Thoracic epidural lipomatosis

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 618-622

  Venkatanarasimha, Nanda ^a   Parrish, Richard W ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KYPHOSIS; LEG MUSCLE; LEG PAIN; LIPOMATOSIS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOM; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRA;

EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; LIPOMATOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARESIS; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 70249137617     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2522080365     Document Type: Article

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