Surgical management of aggressive vertebral hemangiomas causing spinal cord compression: Long-term clinical follow-up of fi ve cases

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 350-356

  Kato, Satoshi ^a   Kawahara, Norio ^a   Murakami, Hideki ^a   Demura, Satoru ^a   Yoshioka, Katsuhito ^a   Okayama, Tadaki ^a   Fujita, Takuya ^a   Tomita, Katsuro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE NAIL; BONE PLATE; COMPLICATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 77956477663     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-010-1483-z     Document Type: Article

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