Legacy and current understanding of the often-misunderstood Foix-Alajouanine syndrome: Historical vignette

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 902-906

  Ferrell, Andrew S ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^b   Acakpo Satchivi, Leslie ^b   Deveikis, John P ^c   Harrigan, Mark R ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foix Alajouanine syndrome; Myelopathy; Thrombosis; Type I dural arteriovenous fistula; Venous congestion

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; DEATH; ENDOMESOVASCULITIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYELITIS; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD NECROSIS; SUBACUTE NECROTIC MYELITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYPHILIS; THICKNESS; VASCULITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BLOOD FLOW; CYSTITIS; DURA MATER; FATALITY; HISTORY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME; VASCULARIZATION; WALKING;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CYSTITIS; DURA MATER; FATAL OUTCOME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELITIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PARAPLEGIA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SYNDROME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WALKING;

EID: 70449520776     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2007.11.17656     Document Type: Article

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