Paravertebral malignant tumors of childhood: Analysis of 28 pediatric patients

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-69

  Gunes, Dilek ^a   Uysal, Kamer Mutafoglu ^a   Cetinkaya, Hilal ^a   Tekin, Hande Gazeteci ^a   Yuceer, Nurullah ^a   Sarialioglu, Faik ^b   Olgun, Nur ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Childhood; Paravertebral malignant tumors; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARAVERTEBRAL MALIGNANT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57449117901     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0717-2     Document Type: Article

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