Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh

Subject. We present the case history of a 47-year-old lady who, 10 months following excision of a soft tissue sarcoma from the left thigh, was struck with recurrent episodes of foot drop. Discussion. The curious phenomenon of recurrent foot drop was found to be secondary to pressure symptoms from a...

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Autores principales: Maiya, Srinivas, Tan, Simon, Grimer, Robert J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2000
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577140020025913
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Tan, Simon
Grimer, Robert J.
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description Subject. We present the case history of a 47-year-old lady who, 10 months following excision of a soft tissue sarcoma from the left thigh, was struck with recurrent episodes of foot drop. Discussion. The curious phenomenon of recurrent foot drop was found to be secondary to pressure symptoms from a tense seroma of the thigh. She underwent surgical excision of the sac and had immediate and complete relief of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-23954472008-06-02 Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh Maiya, Srinivas Tan, Simon Grimer, Robert J. Sarcoma Research Article Subject. We present the case history of a 47-year-old lady who, 10 months following excision of a soft tissue sarcoma from the left thigh, was struck with recurrent episodes of foot drop. Discussion. The curious phenomenon of recurrent foot drop was found to be secondary to pressure symptoms from a tense seroma of the thigh. She underwent surgical excision of the sac and had immediate and complete relief of symptoms. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2000-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2395447/ /pubmed/18521300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577140020025913 Text en Copyright © 2000 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Maiya, Srinivas
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Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title_full Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title_fullStr Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title_full_unstemmed Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title_short Recurrent Episodic Foot-Drop Following Surgery to the Thigh
title_sort recurrent episodic foot-drop following surgery to the thigh
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13577140020025913
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