Microsurgical removal of intramedullary spinal cord gliomas in a rat spinal cord decreases onset to paresis, an animal model for intramedullary tumor treatment

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 901-907

  Pennant, William A ^a   Sciubba, Daniel M ^a   Noggle, Joseph C ^a   Tyler, Betty M ^a   Tamargo, Rafael J ^a   Jallo, George I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Intramedullary; Model; Resection; Spinal cord; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MODEL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; GLIOSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL CORD TUMOR; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTOMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLIOSARCOMA; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MICROSURGERY; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARALYSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 47249158161     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0587-7     Document Type: Article

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