Do spinal meningiomas penetrate the pial layer? Correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and microsurgical findings and intracranial tumor interfaces

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 254-258

  Salpietro, Francesco M ^a   Alafaci, Cetty ^a   Lucerna, Sebastiano ^a   Iacopino, Domenico G ^a   Tomasello, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ADULT; ARACHNOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PIA MATER;

EID: 0030917165     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199707000-00041     Document Type: Article

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