Thoracolumbar teratoma associated with meningomyelocele: Common aetiology or coincidence?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 6-7, 2002, Pages 304-

  Erşahin, Yusuf ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDERMOID CYST; HAMARTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE MALFORMATION; TERATOMA; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036663824     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0588-x     Document Type: Note

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