Surgical management of spinal cord compression from plexiform neurofibromas in patients with neurofibromatosis 1

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 248-256

  Pollack, Ian F ^a   Colak, Ahmet ^a   Fitz, Charles ^a   Wiener, Eugene ^a   Moreland, Morey ^a   Mulvihill, John J ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Kyphosis; Nerve monitoring; Nerve sheath tumor; Neurofibromatosis 1; Plexiform neurofibroma; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KYPHOSIS; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROFIBROMA, PLEXIFORM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0031879632     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199808000-00038     Document Type: Article

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