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Intervertebral disc embolization resulting in spinal cord infarction. Case report
J R Kestle1, L Resch, C H Tator
1Department of Neuropathology, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Neurosurgery
|December 1, 1989
Abstract:
A case of spinal cord infarction resulting from embolization of fibrocartilaginous intervertebral disc material is presented. Cases from the literature are reviewed and the theories of pathogenesis are discussed, in all reported cases the diagnosis was not made until postmortem examination.