Surgical treatment of primary intramedullary Spinal cord tumors in adult patients

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-63

  Taricco, Mario Augusto ^a   Guirado, Vinicius Monteiro De Paula ^a   Fontes, Ricardo Bragança De Vasconcellos ^a,b   Plese, José Pindaro Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; Microsurgery; Spastic paraparesis; Spinal cord; Spinal cord neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPENDYMOMA; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

EID: 42049084198     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000100014     Document Type: Article

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