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Painful rib hump: a new clinical sign for detecting intraspinal rib displacement in scoliosis due to neurofibromatosis

BACKGROUND: Spinal cord compression and associate neurological impairment is rare in patients with scoliosis and neurofibromatosis. Common reasons are vertebral subluxation, dislocation, angulation and tumorous lesions around the spinal canal. Only twelve cases of intraspinal rib dislocation have be...

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Autores principales: Gkiokas, Andreas, Hadzimichalis, Socratis, Vasiliadis, Elias, Katsalouli, Marina, Kannas, Georgios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1508157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16774682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-1-10