Microsurgical involvement of intramedullary cervical cord tumors

Authors

  • M. E. Polischuk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L. Shupyk of Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • A. V. Muravskiy National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L. Shupyk of Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • E. I. Slinko Romodanov Neurosurgery Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

Keywords:

інтрамедулярні пухлини, епендимома, астроцитома, ангіоретикулома.

Abstract

Analysed 47 patients with intramedullary cervical cord tumors. All of patients were operated. Histological examinations revealed 21 ependymomas, 17 astrocytomas, 6 hemangioblastomas and 1 each of oligodendroglioma, cavernoma, hemangiopericytoma. Tumors were totally resected in 17, subtotally in 14 and partially in 19 patients. In postoperative period in most cases neurologic status went without changes or had improvement of neurologic symptomatic. Intramedullary tumors of the cervical spinal cord are amenable to total surgical removal.

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Polischuk, M. E., Muravskiy, A. V., & Slinko, E. I. Microsurgical involvement of intramedullary cervical cord tumors. Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal, (2), 65–71. Retrieved from https://theunj.org/article/view/107745

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