| Literature DB >> 27080553 |
Samira Saadoun1, Melissa C Werndle1, Luis Lopez de Heredia2, Marios C Papadopoulos1.
Abstract
MR scans from 65 patients with traumatic spinal cord injury were analysed; on admission 95% had evidence of cord compression - in 26% due to the dura, and in the remaining 74% due to extradural factors. Compression due to dural factors resolved with a half-life of 8.7 days. These findings suggest that bony decompression alone may not relieve spinal cord compression in the quarter of patients in whom dural factors are significant.Entities:
Keywords: Laminectomy; magnetic resonance imaging; spinal cord compression; spinal cord injury
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27080553 DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2016.1173191
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Neurosurg ISSN: 0268-8697 Impact factor: 1.596