Cervical disc herniation as a trigger for temporary cervical cord ischemia
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Cervical disc herniation as a trigger for temporary cervical cord ischemia.
BACKGROUND Disc herniations are only reported in few case reports as a rare cause of acute spinal ischemia. A surgical treatment has not been described so far in these reports with analysis of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI/MRI) before and after surgery. The aim of our study is to report a case of cervical spinal cord ischemia caused by cervical disc herniation and discuss t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Spine Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2414-469X,2414-4630
DOI: 10.21037/jss.2016.06.04