Intramedullary spinal cord tumors in neurofibromatosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-37

  Lee, Mark ^a,b   Rezai, Ali R ^a   Freed, Diana ^a   Epstein, Fred J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Ependymoma; Intramedullary spinal cord tumor; Neurofibromatosis; Spinal cord; Spinal cord tumor; von Recklinghausen's

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030040335     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199601000-00009     Document Type: Article

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