Coulier, B.
We report two very unusual observations in which gas and fluid effusions were transiently and unexpectedly found in the extravertebral spaces of patients presenting with painful necrotic vertebral collapse containing a vacuum cleft. We hypothesize that gas and/or fluid which progressively may replace vacuum in vertebral compression fractures could be secondarily pumped through extravertebral and retroperitoneal spaces. Although being rare, these observations may represent a potential missing link in the imaging snapshots of the cyclic and dynamic vacuum phenomenon.
Bibliographic reference |
Coulier, B.. Extravertebral gas and fluid effusions associated with vertebral collapse containing a vacuum cleft possibly result from a pumping phenomenon: A new evidence of the dynamic hydro-pneumatical nature of the so-called vacuum phenomenon. In: JBR-BTR, Vol. 96, no. 1, p. 10-16 (2013) |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/164072 |