Symptomatic spinal epidural lipomatosis with severe obesity at a young age

Orthopedics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ohba, Tetsuro ^a   Saito, Toshiki ^a   Kawasaki, Nobuchika ^a   Maekawa, Shingo ^a   Haro, Hirotaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; LAMINECTOMY; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIPOMATOSIS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPINAL EPIDURAL LIPOMATOSIS; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 79958113140     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20110427-25     Document Type: Article

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