Primary atlantoaxial bone tumors in children: Management strategies and long-term follow-up: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 260-272

  Menezes, Arnold H ^a   Ahmed, Raheel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Craniocervical fusion; Embolization; Oncology; Osteoblastoma; Primary spinal tumors; Proton beam radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHORDOMA; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK PAIN; OCCIPITAL PAIN; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOCHONDROMA; PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY ATLANTOAXIAL BONE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AXIS; BIOPSY; BONE CYSTS, ANEURYSMAL; BONE NEOPLASMS; CERVICAL ATLAS; CHILD; CHORDOMA; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA OF BONE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NECK PAIN; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOCHONDROMA; SARCOMA, EWING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84895433038     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.11.PEDS13245     Document Type: Article

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