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Intramedullary spinal cord tumors
Comparison of the incidence of the various types of spinal tumors in infancy and childhood to other age groups reveals significant differences, similar to the brain tumors. Compared with intramedullary tumors in adult patients (16%), the incidence of intramedul1ary bIastomas is higher in children and young adults (1-16 years) (25%). Intramedullary tumors become prevalently manifest as gliomas (...
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Comparison of the incidence of the various types of spinal tumors in infancy and childhood to other age groups reveals significant differences, similar to the brain tumors. Compared with intramedullary tumors in adult patients (16%), the incidence of intramedul1ary bIastomas is higher in children and young adults (1-16 years) (25%). Intramedullary tumors become prevalently manifest as gliomas (...
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Surgery is the best treatment to offer patients with an intramedullary spinal cord tumor. In experienced hands, radical surgery can be performed with acceptable surgical risks in most ependymomas, hemangioblastomas, and cavernomas and in 40% of astrocytomas. However, some inflammatory lesions may mimic an intramedullary tumor. That is the reason why, one should pay attention to spinal cord morp...
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OBJECTIVE Recently, surgical outcomes of patients with intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) have been improved due to advances of medicine. The purposes of our study were to evaluate the recent neurological outcomes after surgical treatment of IMSCTs. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 69 patients who underwent surgical treatment for IMSCT in our hospital between 1998 and 2013. Patient'...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Surgery
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0914-6024,1880-9359
DOI: 10.2531/spinalsurg.18.71