Surgical technique and outcomes in the treatment of spinal cord ependymomas, part 1: Intramedullary ependymomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Kucia, Elisa J ^a   Bambakidis, Nicholas C ^b   Chang, Steve W ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ependymomas; Hemangioblastomas; Intramedullary; Primary glial tumors; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE EPENDYMOMA; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; DYSESTHESIA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY EPENDYMOMA; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR SPINE EPENDYMOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE EPENDYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; WEAKNESS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; EPENDYMOMA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951770930     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318208f181     Document Type: Article

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