Functional outcome after surgical treatment of intramedullary spinal cord tumors: Experience with 78 patients

Spinal Cord

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-41

  Sandalcioglu, I E ^a   Gasser, T ^a   Asgari, S ^a   Lazorisak, A ^a   Engelhorn, T ^a   Egelhof, T ^a   Stolke, D ^a   Wiedemayer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Ependymoma; Intramedullary tumor; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPENDYMOMA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMOID CYST; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 12244267070     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101668     Document Type: Article

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