Thoracic dumbbell-shaped neurinomo treated by unilateral hemilaminectomy with partial costotransversectomy - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 354-357

  Takamura, Yukio ^a   Uede, Teiji ^a   Igarashi, Koji ^a   Tatewaki, Koshi ^a   Morimoto, Shigefumi ^a  

^a Kushiro City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

costotransversectomy; dumbbell shaped tumor; hemilaminectomy; neurinoma; thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEURINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE;

HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030958243     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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