Estrogen and progesterone receptor-negative T11 vertebral hemangioma presenting as a postpartum compression fracture: Case report and management

Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 218-221

  Schwartz, Theodore H ^a,c   Hibshoosh, Hanina ^b   Riedel, Charles J ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpectomy; Estrogen; Hemangioma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Puerperium; Spinal tumor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DISORDER; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA;

EID: 0033986252     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neurosurgery/46.1.218     Document Type: Article

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