Primary intramedullary melanocytoma of the spinal cord: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Karikari, Isaac O ^a   Powers, Ciaran J ^a   Bagley, Carlos A ^a   Cummings, Thomas J ^a   Radhakrishnan, Senthilkumar ^a   Friedman, Allan H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intramedullary tumor; Melanocytoma; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORDOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LEG NUMBNESS; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL MELANOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE; THORACIC LAMINECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649833806     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000341516.22126.AA     Document Type: Article

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