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  • Title: [Ascending tetraplegia after embolic occlusion of medullary arteries by nucleus pulposus tissue (author's transl)].
    Author: Schairer E, von Albert HH.
    Journal: MMW Munch Med Wochenschr; 1977 Nov 04; 119(44):1433-6. PubMed ID: 412085.
    Abstract:
    A 19 year old woman developed an acute ascending tetraplegia, for which no reason could be found. 9 months later the patient died from a septicemia starting from a decubitus. Postmortem examination showed an occlusion of a medullary artery by emboli of nucleus pulposus tissue. A survey is given of similar cases reported in the literature and the cause of the embolism discussed. It seems most probable that invasion of the misshapen vessel by tissue from a pathological nucleus pulposus was responsible.
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