Nine Cases of Nontraumatic Spinal Epidural Hematoma
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Nine cases of nontraumatic spinal epidural hematoma.
Nontraumatic spinal epidural hematoma (NSEH) is a rare but potentially serious spinal disease, which progresses inexorably to a catastrophic neurological situation if left untreated. Nine patients (5 males and 4 females, mean age 59.8 years) with NSEH were admitted to our hospital between 1987 and 1997. Clinical data, imaging, and operative results of these patients were analyzed retrospectivel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.718