Management of benign craniovertebral junction tumors

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-36

  Parlato, C ^a   Tessitore, E ^b   Schonauer, C ^b   Moraci, A ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Craniocervical approach; Craniovertebral junction tumors; Occipitocervical fusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE TUMOR; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION TUMOR; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037266321     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-002-1024-4     Document Type: Article

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