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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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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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author | Gheiratian, Mohammadmahdi Karimian, Hoda |
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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/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Gheiratian, Mohammadmahdi Karimian, Hoda Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report |
title | Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report |
title_full | Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report |
title_fullStr | Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report |
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 |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744613/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862549 |
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