Management of brachial plexus region tumours and tumour-like conditions: Relevant diagnostic and surgical features in a consecutive series of eighteen patients

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1089-1098

  Siqueira, M G ^a,c   Martins, R S ^a,b   Teixeira, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL SANTA MARCELINA   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Brachial plexus tumours; Neural sheath tumours; Neurofibroma; Non neural sheath tumours; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NERVE TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE CYSTS, ANEURYSMAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS, AGGRESSIVE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249214216     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0380-8     Document Type: Article

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