Pediatric vertebral and spinal cord tumors: A retrospective study of musculoskeletal aspects of presentation, treatment, and complications

Orthopedics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-56

  Mehlman, Charles T ^a   Crawford, Alvin H ^a,b   McMath, Jeffery A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE MALFORMATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 0032926075     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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