Current treatment strategies and outcomes in the management of symptomatic vertebral hemangiomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-295

  Acosta Jr , Frank L ^a   Dowd, Christopher F ^a   Chin, Cynthia ^a   Tihan, Tarik ^a   Ames, Christopher P ^a   Weinstein, Philip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Laminectomy; Vertebral hemangioma; Vertebrectomy; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STENOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32244436979     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000194846.55984.C8     Document Type: Article

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