A 10-year review of benign and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors in a single center: Clinical and radiographic features can help to differentiate benign from malignant lesions

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 529-533

  Furniss, Dominic ^a   Swan, Marc C ^a   Morritt, Daniel G ^a   Lim, Joanna ^a   Khanna, Tarun ^a   Way, Benjamin L M ^a   Athanasou, Nick A ^a   Giele, Henk ^a   Critchley, Paul ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANK SUM TEST; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40749091648     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000297636.93164.cb     Document Type: Article

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