Upward spinal coning: impaction of occult spinal tumours following relief of hydrocephalus.
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Upward spinal coning: impaction of occult spinal tumours following relief of hydrocephalus.
Neurological deterioration sometimes follows removal of cerebro-spinal fluid by lumbar puncture below a spinal block caused by a tumour. Experience has shown that similar impaction of a spinal intradural tumour may occur following the draining of hydrocephalus. We have used the term "upward spinal coning " to describe this and report four cases in which impaction of an intradural metastasis occ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.47.4.386