Intramedullary spinal melanocytoma

Rare Tumors

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 64-67

  Eskandari, Ramin ^a   Schmidt, Meic H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intramedullary; Melanocytoma; Myelotomy; Spinal tumor

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORDOTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HAMSTRING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL MELANOCYTOMA; LAMINECTOMY; LEG MUSCLE; LEG PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; WALKING;

EID: 77953463965     PISSN: 20363605     EISSN: 20363613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/rt.2010.e24     Document Type: Article

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