En bloc marginal excision of a multilevel cervical chordoma: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 409-414

  Bailey, Christopher S ^a   Fisher, Charles G ^a,b   Boyd, Michael C ^a   Dvorak, Marcel F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b D 6 Heather Pavilion ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Chordoma; En bloc resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL CHORDOMA; CERVICAL SPINE; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINE SURGERY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT REFERRAL; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FUSION;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHORDOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646938047     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.4.5.409     Document Type: Article

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