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CAUDA EQUINA LESION DUE TO THOROTRAST
Author(s) -
FREILICH D.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1983.tb04660.x
Subject(s) - thorotrast , medicine , cauda equina , dyscrasia , lesion , thorium dioxide , hydrocephalus , myelography , cauda equina syndrome , meninges , pathology , radiology , spinal cord , chemistry , plasma cell , psychiatry , nuclear chemistry , bone marrow
Thorotrast (Thorium dioxide) has been used in the past as a radiological contrast medium. Its use resulted in serious side‐effects, often after a delay of many years. There was an increased incidence of tumours and blood dyscrasias. Meningeal fibrosis, hydrocephalus and progressive lesions of the cauda equina have followed its injection into the sub‐arachnoid spaces. A patient with such a cauda equina lesion is reported.