Ten years' experience in the management of spinal intramedullary tumors in a single institution

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 292-298

  Bansal, Sumit ^a   Ailawadhi, Pankaj ^a   Suri, Ashish ^a   Kale, Shashank Sharad ^a   Sarat Chandra, P ^a   Singh, Manmohan ^a   Kumar, Rajender ^a   Sharma, Bhawani S ^a   Mahapatra, Ashok Kumar ^a   Sharma, Mehar C ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Bithal, Pramod ^a   Dash, Hari Har ^a   Gaikwad, Sailesh ^a   Mishra, Nalin Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Ependymoma; Intramedullary tumor; Microsurgical treatment; Outcome; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYRINGOMYELIA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEAKNESS;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMAL CYST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872284921     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.01.056     Document Type: Article

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