Iso-intense neuroenteric cyst in the lower cervical spine treated with ventral resection and anterior fusion utilising sternal notch exposure: Case report, technical note and literature review

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 606-612

  Laidlaw, John D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Cervicothoracic junction; Corporectomy; MRI; Neurenteric cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCISION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD CYST; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL NEUROENTERIC CYST; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141670231     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-5868(03)00198-X     Document Type: Article

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