Symptomatic intraspinal pneumocoele resulting from closed head injury.
Intraspinal pneumocoele is rarely associated with closed head injury. We describe a case of intra-spinal pneumocoele following a closed head injury. We believe this to be the first case presenting with radicular symptoms.
Yousaf
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Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Flynn
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McConnell
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