Clinical features of cauda equina tumors requiring surgical treatment

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Shimada, Yoichi ^a   Miyakoshi, Naohisa ^b   Kasukawa, Yuji ^b   Hongo, Michio ^b   Ando, Shigeru ^b   Itoi, Eiji ^b  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cauda equina tumors; Clinical features; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELOGRAPHY; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646165280     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.209.1     Document Type: Review

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