Neurosurgical management of intramedullary spinal cord tumors in children

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-235

  Kothbauer, Karl F ^a  

^a Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intramedullary; Intraoperative monitoring; Pediatric; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LASER SURGERY; LIQUORRHEA; MICROSURGERY; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE MALFORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR LESION;

ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPENDYMOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34147112785     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098835     Document Type: Article

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