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Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) although uncommon, is a very serious condition, which should be diagnosed as soon as possible. Urinary dysfunction following a lumbosacral trauma is a key for the physician to consider CES as the most probable diagnosis. Up to 62% of CES patients report a recent episode o...

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Autores principales: Gheiratian, Mohammadmahdi, Karimian, Hoda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862549
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description Cauda equina syndrome (CES) although uncommon, is a very serious condition, which should be diagnosed as soon as possible. Urinary dysfunction following a lumbosacral trauma is a key for the physician to consider CES as the most probable diagnosis. Up to 62% of CES patients report a recent episode of trauma. We herein report a young man with CES due to sacral fracture with an interesting imaging.
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spelling pubmed-47446132016-02-09 Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report Gheiratian, Mohammadmahdi Karimian, Hoda Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Cauda equina syndrome (CES) although uncommon, is a very serious condition, which should be diagnosed as soon as possible. Urinary dysfunction following a lumbosacral trauma is a key for the physician to consider CES as the most probable diagnosis. Up to 62% of CES patients report a recent episode of trauma. We herein report a young man with CES due to sacral fracture with an interesting imaging. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4744613/ /pubmed/26862549 Text en © 2016 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved. This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0)., (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
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title_fullStr Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report
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title_short Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report
title_sort urinary retention and air in the spinal canal; a case report
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