Growth behavior of plexiform neurofibromas after surgery

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 691-696

  Nguyen, Rosa ^a,b   Ibrahim, Chadi ^a   Friedrich, Reinhard E ^b   Westphal, Manfred ^b   Schuhmann, Martin ^c   Mautner, Victor Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance imaging; neurofibromatosis type 1; plexiform neurofibroma; surgery; volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHILD; DEFORMITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GROWTH RATE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROFIBROMA, PLEXIFORM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883864396     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2013.30     Document Type: Article

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