Spinal MeningiomasSince Harvey Cushing's extensive study on brain meningiomas no similar study has been conducted on spinal cord meningiomas. The high scientific value of this book is based on the careful elaboration of data from patients affected by spinal meningiomas who have been examined and operated on over the last 33 years (1962-1995) at the Neurosurgical School of the University of Florence, Italy. The main focus of this study was on the anatomic and clinical relationship that enabled early diagnosis of spinal meningiomas. More over this book emphasizes the interaction between neurology and neuroradiology in the form of "dynamic neurology". Myeloradiculographic findings are described together with those using more recent techniques such as CT and MRI. |
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General Considerations | 1 |
Case Reports | 15 |
Neurophysiopathology | 69 |
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adherent affected anterolateral appeared arachnoid arterial attachment Babinski sign bilateral calcified canal cervical Chap Clinical Course complete compression cord deficit defined displaced distally dome-shaped dorsal dura dural entire excision FIRENZE flow foot g protein gradual hospitalization Hypoaesthesia improvement incision increased internal intradural-extra intradural-extramedullary lamina lateral layer lesion located lower limbs lumbar puncture medullary meningioma menin months motor Myelo-CT Myelography performed suboccipitally Myelography via lumbar nature neoplasm nerve Neurological Examination normal operation pain paraesthesias patient posterior postoperative premedullary present producing protein per thousand Rachicentesis Rachis radicular recovery region removal responses Results Right posterolateral root SCAN scoliosis seen sensory SEPS Severe showed side slight Spastic paraparesis Sphincter disturbances spinal structures surface surgery Surgical Treatment symptoms syndrome thin tion Total block tract Transitional Meningioma tumour upper vascularization ventral walking woman X-Ray of Dorsal