Surgical experience with resection en bloc of intramedullary astrocytomas and ependymomas in the cervical and cervicothoracic region

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 623-628

  Kyoshima, Kazuhiko ^a   Akaishi, Kotaro ^a   Tokushige, Kazuo ^a   Muraoka, Hisashi ^a   Oikawa, Susumu ^a   Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Koyama, Jun Ichi ^a   Kobayashi, Sumio ^a   Unoki, Takashi ^a   Goto, Tetsuya ^a   Wada, Naomichi ^a   Uehara, Takashi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

astrocytoma; cervical spinal cord; en bloc removal; ependymoma; intramedullary tumor; spinal cord tumor; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 3142729151     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.08.011     Document Type: Article

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