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Radiology, Vol 119, 609-613, Copyright © 1976 by Radiological Society of North America

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Paraspinal muscle infarction. A painful complication of lumbar artery embolization associated with pathognomonic radiographic and laboratory findings

JL Doppman and G Di Chiro

Severe, prolonged back pain was observed in 2 patients following lumbar artery embolization with Gelfoam for angiomatous spinal lesions. Dense, persistent staining of the paravertebral muscles with a characteristic striated pattern and elevated levels of creatine phosphokinase suggested muscle infarction and necrosis. Similar angiographic and laboratory findings were reproduced in monkeys following arterial embolization with Gelfoam.




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