Prognostic factors in the treatment of intramedullary spinal cord tumors;Fatores prognósticos no tratamento dos tumores intramedulares

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 60, Issue 3 B, 2002, Pages 818-822

  Koerbel, Andrei ^a,b   Tatsui, Claudio Esteves ^a   Prevedello, Daniel Monte Serrat ^a   Hanel, Ricardo Alexandre ^b   Grande, César Vinícius ^b   Da Silva Ditzel, Léo Fernando ^a   Araújo, João Cândido ^a   Antoniuk, Affonso ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Ependymoma; Intramedullary tumors; Microsurgery; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0039435113     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2002000500024     Document Type: Article

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