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Corticosteroid-induced spinal epidural lipomatosis in the pediatric age group: report of a new case and updated analysis of the literature

Spinal epidural lipomatosis is a rare complication of chronic corticosteroid treatment. We report a new pediatric case and an analysis of this and 19 pediatric cases identified in the international literature. The youngest of these combined 20 patients was 5 years old when lipomatosis was diagnosed....

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Autores principales: Möller, Jana C, Cron, Randy Q, Young, Daniel W, Girschick, Hermann J, Levy, Deborah M, Sherry, David D, Kukita, Akiko, Saijo, Kaoru, Pessler, Frank
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21284882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-9-5