Spinal metastasis of glioblastoma multiforme: An uncommon suspect?

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Birbilis, Theodossios A ^a   Matis, Georgios K ^a   Eleftheriadis, Savvas G ^a   Theodoropoulou, Efthimia N ^a   Sivridis, Efthimios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epiphysis; Glioblastoma multiforme; Metastasis; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORDOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77951694734     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c11748     Document Type: Article

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