Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors

✍ Scribed by G. Fischer, Jacques Brotchi

• Publisher: Thieme
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 116
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

University of Lyons, France. Text on the advances of intramedullary spinal cord tumor treatment, for neurosurgeons. Discusses diagnostic and therapeutic problems, aspects of tumors according to histological types, and the results of 171 spinal cord tumor surgeries. 30 contributors, no U.S. DNLM: Spinal Cord Neoplasms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
......Page 1
Copyright
......Page 2
Forward
......Page 3
Preface
......Page 4
Author's Preface
......Page 5
Introduction
......Page 6
Contributors
......Page 7
Contents
......Page 10
Abbreviations
......Page 11
1.1 General Considerations
......Page 12
1.2 Diagnosis
......Page 32
1.3 Surgery
......Page 64
2.1 Tumors of Glial Origin
......Page 71
2.2 Malignant Tumors of Nonglial Origin
......Page 80
2.3 Benign Tumors of Nonglia Origin
......Page 83
2.4 Pseudotumors
......Page 92
3.2 Functional Results
......Page 96
3.3 Postoperative Outcome and Follow-Up
......Page 101
Summary and Conclusions
......Page 116