Surgical management of long intramedullary spinal cord tumors

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-223

  Tobias, Michael E ^a   McGirt, Matthew J ^b   Chaichana, Kaisorn L ^b   Goldstein, Ira M ^c   Kothbauer, Karl F ^d   Epstein, Fred ^e   Jallo, George I ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocord; Intramedullary spinal cord tumor; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIPOMA; LONG INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL CORD TUMOR; MALE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37749025530     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0405-7     Document Type: Article

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