Treatment and outcome of vertebral Langerhans cell histiocytosis at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 230-236

  Brown, Christopher W ^a   Jarvis, James G ^a   Letts, Mervyn ^b   Carpenter, Blair ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Shalkh Khalifa Medical Center   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BIOPSY; CANADA; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NECK PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

BACK PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECK PAIN; SPINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21344467258     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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