Torticollis secondary to posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord tumors: Report of five cases and literature review

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-338

  Kumandaş, Sefer ^a   Per, Hüseyin ^a,b   Gümüş, Hakan ^a   Tucer, Bülent ^a   Yikilmaz, Ali ^a   Kontaş, Olgun ^a   Coşkun, Abdülhakim ^a   Kurtsoy, Ali ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord tumors; Posterior fossa tumors; Torticollis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BONE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGAMENT DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TORTICOLLIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 33748585947     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-006-0034-8     Document Type: Article

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