Combined Minimally Invasive Approach Using Microsurgery and Thoracoscopic Surgery for Resecting a Dumbbell-Type Thoracic Schwannoma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 251-253

  Ishikawa, E ^a   Matsumura, A ^a   Ishikawa, S ^a   Nakamura, K ^a   Nose, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimally Invasive Surgery; Nerve Root Tumor; Thoracic Schwannoma; Thoracoscopic Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NERVE ROOT TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROGENIC TUMOR; NEUROSURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VERTEBRA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; SPINAL ROOT; THORACOSCOPE; THORAX TUMOR;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOSCOPES;

EID: 0036887269     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36201     Document Type: Article

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