By Daniel H. Kim MD FACS, Ung-kyu Chang MD PhD, Se-Hoon Kim MD PhD, Mark H. Bilsky MD
ISBN-10: 141603367X
ISBN-13: 9781416033677
In attaining optimum results on your sufferers with this new multimedia reference. geared up through tumor then via zone, this source information diagnostic and healing ideas for basic and malignant spinal tumors. Over 25 key procedures--including minimally invasive surgery--are awarded in a concise, stepwise type, placing the foremost info you would like correct at your fingertips! Over six hundred illustrations around out this exhaustive new reference.Keep modern at the most modern advances in analysis and remedy with discussions of the newest surgical ideas, together with minimally invasive backbone surgery.Chapter templating is helping the whole approach in addition to key facets, pearls and pitfalls, prior to heading into the OR.Have the entire info you must make a analysis and plan sufferer administration with outsized, complete colour scientific photographs and line drawings that illustrate key diagnoses and surgeries.
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4-3 Rhabdoid meningioma. Eccentrically located nuclei and abundant pinkish cytoplasm are seen (hematoxylin–eosin stain, Â400). extradural, or even paraspinous areas. On T1-weighted images (T1WI), the signal of the mass is isointense to the spinal cord (Figs. 4-4 and 4-5). On T2-weighted images (T2WI), most parts of the mass show iso-signal to the spinal cord (see Figs. 4-4 and 4-5). Fig. 4-4 Sagittal MRI of intradural meningioma. On T2WI, a small, round mass is seen in the intradural space at the T7 level (left).
4-10 Axial images of the extradural schwannoma. The mass has several components: intraspinal cystic portion, extraforaminal solid portion, and ventral part that eroded the vertebral body. On T2WI, the signal is mixed (left). On TIWI, the signal is low (middle). With contrast enhancement, a diffuse enhancement pattern is seen (right). Fig. 4-11 Intraoperative view of extraforaminal schwannoma. Right side thoracotomy is done and intrathoracic mass is seen. The mass is covered with parietal pleura (left).