Concomitant conus medullaris ependymoma and filum terminale lipoma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Gallia, Gary L ^a   Burger, Peter C ^a   Suk, Ian ^a   Bagley, Carlos A ^a   Wolinsky, Jean Paul ^a   Garonzik, Ira M ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauda equina; Ependymoma; Filum terminale; Lipoma; Myxopapillary; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; LAMINOPLASTY; LIPOMA; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CAUDA EQUINA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LIPOMA; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745110189     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215992.26176.94     Document Type: Article

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