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Pathologic quiz case: Acute-onset paraplegia in a 60-year-old woman: Pathologic diagnosis: Spinal cord infarction secondary to fibrocartilaginous (Intervertebral disk) embolism
A 60-year-old woman with a medical history of chronic lower back pain presented with a chief complaint that she could not walk. After swimming, she had a "funny feeling" in her lower back, felt a need to defecate, went to the commode, and developed numbness and the inability to move her legs. She ...
August 1, 2003; Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

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