Spinal Cord Infarction Complicating Embolisation of Vertebral Metastasis
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MR imaging of spinal cord and vertebral body infarction.
PURPOSE To study the usefulness of MR in the evaluation of spinal cord infarctions and associated findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS MR examinations of 12 patients (10 men and two women) were reviewed retrospectively. Onset of symptoms of spinal cord ischemia was abrupt in all patients; MR was performed 8 hr to 4 months after onset. Contrast-enhanced MR was performed in four of the patients. R...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interventional Neuroradiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1591-0199,2385-2011
DOI: 10.1177/159101999900500111