Surgical results of intramedullary spinal cord tumor with spinal cord monitoring to guide extent of resection: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 404-413

  Matsuyama, Yukihiro ^a   Sakai, Yoshihito ^a   Katayama, Yoshito ^a   Imagama, Shiro ^a   Ito, Zenya ^a   Wakao, Norimitsu ^a   Sato, Koji ^a   Kamiya, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yukawa, Yasutsugu ^a   Kanemura, Tokumi ^a   Yanase, Makoto ^a   Ishiguro, Naoki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intramedullary tumor; Spinal cord monitoring; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; DURAPLASTY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGLIONEUROMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURINOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; SARCOIDOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD BIOPSY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WHEELCHAIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; WALKING;

EID: 66449107173     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.SPINE08698     Document Type: Article

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