Treatment of relevant nerve roots involved in nerve sheath tumors: Removal or preservation?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 684-692

  Celli, Paolo ^a   Benzel, Edward C ^b   Brotchi, Jacques ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Nerve root; Nerve root resection; Nerve sheath tumor; Neurofibroma; Schwannoma; Spinal nerve; Spinal tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEAFFERENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL NERVE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NECK; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0036765282     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200209000-00012     Document Type: Article

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