Thoracolumbar teratoma associated with meningomyelocele: Common aetiology or coincidence?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 6-7, 2002, Pages 299-301

  Bosma, Jark Jan Daniel ^a   Mallucci, Conor Lawrence ^a   May, Paul Laurence ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Meningomyecele; Pathogenesis; Spina bifida; Spinal dysraphism; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TERATOMA; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; TERATOMA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0036664065     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0586-z     Document Type: Article

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