Pediatric intrameduuary spinal cord tumors: Is surgery alone enough?

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-39

  Goh, Keith Y C ^a   Velasquez, Linda ^a   Epstein, Fred J ^a  

^a Inst for Neurology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross total resection; Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumors; Radical surgery; Spinal cord lesions

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031416133     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121222     Document Type: Article

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