Neurocytoma of the spinal cord: Report of three cases and review of the literature

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 569-574

  Polli, Filippo Maria ^a   Salvati, Maurizio ^b   Miscusi, Massimo ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a   Giangaspero, Felice ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Extraventricular neurocytoma; Spinal cord tumour

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; OSMOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAUDA EQUINA; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORDOTOMY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIECTOMY; DELTOID MUSCLE; DURA MATER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LAMINOPLASTY; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MITOSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; ONSET AGE; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYRINGOMYELIA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROCYTOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650435855     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0305-6     Document Type: Review

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