Surgical treatment of one hundred seventy-four intramedullary spinal cord tumors

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Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2705-2710

  Yang, Shuyuan ^a   Yang, Xinyu ^a   Hong, Guoliang ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT); Operation; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; DETERIORATION; DYSESTHESIA; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL CORD TUMOR; LIPOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PARALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72849135337     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181b43484     Document Type: Article

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