Conservative Treatment of Acute Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma
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Whole Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma
A 26-year-old male who had no underlying disease, including coagulopathy, underwent thoracotomy and bleeding control due to hemothorax. On the fifth postoperative day, paralysis of both lower limbs occurred. Urgent spine magnetic resonance imaging showed a massive anterior spinal epidural hematoma from C2 to L1 level with different signal intensities, which was suspected to be staged hemorrhage...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100033795