Cervical schwannoma presenting as an expansile vertebral body lesion: report of two cases with a technical note on the surgical management

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 192-196

  Singrakhia, Manoj D ^a   Parmar, Hemant ^b   Maheshwari, Mohit ^b   Fehlings, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Imaging; Nerve sheath tumor; Schwannoma; Spinal surgery; Vertebral expansile lesion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746293919     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.11.057     Document Type: Article

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