Chordoma in the cervical spine managed with en bloc excision

Spine

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1848-1851

  Fujita, Takuya ^a   Kawahara, Norio ^a   Matsumoto, Tadami ^a   Tomita, Katsuro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Chordoma; En bloc excision; T saw

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0033200328     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199909010-00016     Document Type: Article

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