Surgical Treatment of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors
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Neurological Outcome after Surgical Treatment of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors
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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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Surgery
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0914-6024,1880-9359
DOI: 10.2531/spinalsurg.1.55