Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity

Pneumorrhachis (PR) – the phenomenon of intraspinal air – is a rare radiological finding. The presence of intraspinal air is usually after epidural injections, spinal manipulations, synovial cysts, degenerative disc disease, and epidural abscess. PR is mostly asymptomatic but can also be symptomatic...

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Autores principales: Sobti, Shivender, Bhaskar, S., Sharma, Rajesh K., Choudhary, Ajay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29682055
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_81_16
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author Sobti, Shivender
Bhaskar, S.
Sharma, Rajesh K.
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description Pneumorrhachis (PR) – the phenomenon of intraspinal air – is a rare radiological finding. The presence of intraspinal air is usually after epidural injections, spinal manipulations, synovial cysts, degenerative disc disease, and epidural abscess. PR is mostly asymptomatic but can also be symptomatic. We report a case with PR after chest trauma and attempt to explain its development.
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spelling pubmed-58981262018-04-20 Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity Sobti, Shivender Bhaskar, S. Sharma, Rajesh K. Choudhary, Ajay Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Pneumorrhachis (PR) – the phenomenon of intraspinal air – is a rare radiological finding. The presence of intraspinal air is usually after epidural injections, spinal manipulations, synovial cysts, degenerative disc disease, and epidural abscess. PR is mostly asymptomatic but can also be symptomatic. We report a case with PR after chest trauma and attempt to explain its development. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5898126/ /pubmed/29682055 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_81_16 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sobti, Shivender
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Sharma, Rajesh K.
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Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title_full Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title_short Pneumorrhachis following Chest Injury: A Rare Entity
title_sort pneumorrhachis following chest injury: a rare entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29682055
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_81_16
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