Combinations of caudal myxopapillary ependymoma and dermal sinus: A single shared embryologic lesion?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 568-570

  Wolf, Nicole I ^a   Harting, Inga ^a   Hartmann, Marius ^a   Aschoff, Alfred ^a   Sommer, Clemens ^a   Rating, Dietz ^a   Ebinger, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTEIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA; DERMAL SINUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EMBRYOLOGY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SPINE; MUSCLE TONE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD CYST; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINE DISEASE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TENDON REFLEX; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TOUCH; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRAL CANAL; WALKING; FETUS DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR;

CAUDA EQUINA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PARAPLEGIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA;

EID: 0037961100     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001038     Document Type: Article

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