Spinal Cord Tumors. New Views and Future Directions

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 241-268

  Mechtler, Laszlo L ^a,b,c   Nandigam, Kaveer ^a  

^a DENT NEUROLOGIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c American Society of Neuro Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; DTI; Ependymoma; Ganglioglioma; Hemangioblastoma; Intramedullary spinal tumors; MRI; Spine cysts

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; METHOTREXATE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONUS MEDULLARIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSESTHESIA; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LEUKEMIA; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA; MELANOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MYELITIS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; SYPHILIS; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASCULAR LESION; VERTEBRA BODY; VIBRATION SENSE; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84870231116     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: 15579875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2012.09.011     Document Type: Review

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