Surgical pathology of spinal schwannoma: Has the nerve of its origin been preserved or already degenerated during tumor growth?

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-25

  Hasegawa, M ^a   Fujisawa, H ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a   Tachibana, O ^a   Kida, S ^a   Yamashita, J ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nerve root resection; Spinal schwannoma; Surgical pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONVALESCENCE; DEGENERATION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE ROOT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 12344297655     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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