Benign metastasizing leiomyoma causing spinal cord compression

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 575-577

  Joseph, Vivek ^a   Chacko, Geeta ^a   Raghuram, Lakshminarayan ^a   Rajshekhar, Vedantam ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Epidural neoplasm; Leiomyoma; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BENIGN METASTASIZING LEIOMYOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LEIOMYOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROFIBROMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEPTICEMIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SYMPTOM; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 0345118281     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00268-4     Document Type: Article

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