Acute paraplegia in painless aortic dissection. Rich imaging with poor outcome

Spinal Cord

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-89

  Karacostas, D ^a   Anthomelides, G ^a   Ioannides, P ^a   Psaroulis, K ^b   Psaroulis, D ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Magnetic resonance imaging; Paraplegia

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEFECATION; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DILATATION; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; URINE RETENTION; VIBRATION SENSE;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75149185931     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2009.70     Document Type: Article

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