Thoracic disc herniation and acute myelopathy: Clinical presentation, neuroimaging findings, surgical considerations, and outcome: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 520-528

  Cornips, Erwin M J ^a   Janssen, Marcus L F ^a   Beuls, Emile A M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute myelopathy; Nontraumatic acute paraplegia; Thoracic disc herniation; Thoracoscopic microdiscectomy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FIBRIN GLUE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SPONGOSTAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIFICATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINENCE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; ILEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MICRODISCECTOMY; MOBILIZATION; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMALACIA; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; THORACOSCOPY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953870627     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.12.SPINE10273     Document Type: Article

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