Surgery for spinal cord ependymomas: Outcome and prognostic factors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 302-309

  Boström, Azize ^a   Von Lehe, Marec ^a   Hartmann, Wolfgang ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^a   Feuss, Mareike ^a   Boström, Jan P ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Simon, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

McCormick grade; Microsurgery; Myxopapillary ependymoma; Spinal ependymoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINAL EPENDYMOMA; SUBEPENDYMOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951674874     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182004c1e     Document Type: Article

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