Neck Pain: Common Complaint, Uncommon Diagnosis - Symptomatic Clival Chordoma

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-86

  Alvarado, Ricardo ^a   Gomez, John ^a   Morale, Samuel G ^a   Davis, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CHORDOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; NECK PAIN; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1642457405     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000078620.09526.80     Document Type: Article

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