Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• EL-MAHDY, W.
• KANE, P. J.
• POWELL, M. P.
• CROCKARD, H. A.

Titel

Spinal intradural tumours: Part I-extramedullary

Ist Teil von

• British journal of neurosurgery, 1999-12, Vol.13 (6), p.550-557

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Informa UK Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sixty-six patients had surgery for an intramedullary nerve sheath tumour under the care of one surgical team in a 16-year period. Surgery concentrated on radical intra- and extradural excision combined if necessary with vertebral column reconstruction. Ninety procedures were used in 35 males and 30 females with an age range 12-81 years. Forty-five per cent were located in the cervical, 26% in the thoracic and 29% in the lumbosacral region. Eighteen patients had NF1 and two patients NF2. Sixty-five per cent were schwannomas, 27% were mixed histology and 6% malignant. In terms of functional outcome, 37 patients improved by one or more Frankel grades, three deteriorated by one Frankel grade and no one who presented with symptoms alone deteriorated. There were no operative deaths; no instrumentation failures and five patients developed a CSF leak.