Comprehensive Management of Symptomatic and Aggressive Vertebral Hemangiomas

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-29

  Acosta Jr , Frank L ^a   Sanai, Nader ^a   Chi, John H ^b   Dowd, Christopher F ^a   Chin, Cynthia ^a   Tihan, Tarik ^a   Chou, Dean ^a   Weinstein, Philip R ^a   Ames, Christopher P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MYELORADICULOPATHY; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSELS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 37349117336     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2007.09.010     Document Type: Review

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