Spinal Cord Neoplasms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Diffuse Leptomeningeal Glioneuronal Tumor Without Diffuse Leptomeningeal Involvement: Detailed Molecular and Clinical Characterization. 
  • A novel murine model of human renal cell carcinoma spinal metastasis. 
  • Activity of intrathecal 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide in a nude rat model of human neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Anaplastic extramedullary cervical ependymoma with leptomeningeal metastasis. 
  • Anatomical location dictating major surgical complications for intradural extramedullary spinal tumors: a 10-year single-institutional experience. 
  • Back pain and paraplegia in a fifteen-year-old boy. 
  • Bilateral renal carcinoma in von Hippel-Lindau Disease. 
  • Bone graft options for spinal fusion following resection of spinal column tumors: systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Brain and spine imaging findings in AIDS patients. 
  • Carboplatin chemotherapy for progressive intramedullary spinal cord low-grade gliomas in children: three case studies and a review of the literature. 
  • Case of the season. Solitary neurofibroma with comminuted pathological fracture of C6. 
  • Central nervous system metastases in malignant melanoma. 
  • Clinical outcome differences for lipomyelomeningoceles, intraspinal lipomas, and lipomas of the filum terminale. 
  • Comparison of minimally invasive transspinous and open approaches for thoracolumbar intradural-extramedullary spinal tumors. 
  • Complications and outcomes after spinal cord tumor resection in the United States from 1993 to 2002. 
  • Conventional external beam radiotherapy for central nervous system malignancies. 
  • Descriptive epidemiology of malignant and nonmalignant primary spinal cord, spinal meninges, and cauda equina tumors, United States, 2004-2007. 
  • Detection of cerebrospinal fluid metastasis: CT myelography or MR? 
  • Diagnostic Utility of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring for Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Dorsal column mapping for intramedullary spinal cord tumor resection decreases dorsal column dysfunction. 
  • Ependymomas: MIB-1 proliferation index and survival. 
  • Epidemiology of primary malignant non-osseous spinal tumors in the United States. 
  • Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma metastasis to the thoracic spine. 
  • Evaluation of an artificial intelligence guided inverse planning system: clinical case study. 
  • Extraneural Glioblastoma Multiforme Vertebral Metastasis. 
  • Fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of psammomatous melanotic schwannoma. 
  • GD2-CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas. 
  • Impact of Tumor Histology on Resectability and Neurological Outcome in Primary Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Single-Center Experience With 102 Patients. 
  • Impact of tumor histology on resectability and neurological outcome in primary intramedullary spinal cord tumors: a single-center experience with 102 patients. 
  • Incidence and patterns of neuraxis metastases in children with diffuse pontine glioma. 
  • Incidence patterns for primary malignant spinal cord gliomas: a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results study. 
  • Infiltrating spinal cord astrocytomas: Epidemiology, diagnosis, treatments and future directions. 
  • Intradural spinal teratoma: evidence for a dysembryogenic origin. Report of four cases. 
  • Long-term outcome of patients with intraspinal neuroblastoma. 
  • Long-term outcomes of primarily metastatic juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma in children. 
  • Lymphosarcoma as the cause of ataxia in a horse. 
  • MRI of gangliocytoma of cerebellum and spinal cord. 
  • Medulloblastoma: the Duke University Medical Center experience. 
  • Meningeal mycosis fungoides: cytologic and ultrastructural aspects. 
  • Metastatic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the cauda equina. 
  • Myxopapillary Ependymoma and Fatty Filum in an Adult with Tethered Cord Syndrome: A Shared Embryological Lesion? Case Report. 
  • National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for spinal metastasis from 1993-2002. 
  • Neurologic complications of systemic cancer. 
  • Osteoblastic metastases from astrocytomas: a report of two cases. 
  • Part II: spinal-cord neoplasms--primary tumours of the bony spine and adjacent soft tissues. 
  • Posterior approaches for symptomatic metastatic spinal cord compression. 
  • Postoperative radiosurgery for malignant spinal tumors. 
  • Postoperative surgical site infections in patients undergoing spinal tumor surgery: incidence and risk factors. 
  • Primary Spinal Cord Astrocytomas: Two-Center Clinical Experience of Low- and High-Grade Lesions. 
  • Primary brain and other central nervous system tumors in Appalachia: regional differences in incidence, mortality, and survival. 
  • Primary intradural extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the spine: case report and literature review. 
  • Primary intramedullary melanocytoma of the spinal cord: case report. 
  • Primary spinal intramedullary adrenal cortical adenoma associated with spinal dysraphism: case report. 
  • Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with tumors of the brain/spinal cord. 
  • Radiation injury of the kidney. 
  • Review of stereotactic radiosurgery for intradural spine tumors. 
  • Risk factors for prolonged length of stay in patients undergoing surgery for intramedullary spinal cord tumors. 
  • Sensitivity of 3D Dose Verification to Multileaf Collimator Misalignments in Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Spinal Tumor. 
  • Simpson Grade I-III Resection of Spinal Atypical (World Health Organization Grade II) Meningiomas is Associated With Symptom Resolution and Low Recurrence. 
  • Spinal capillary hemangioma in infants: report of two cases and review of the literature. 
  • Spinal cavernous and capillary hemangiomas in adults. 
  • Spinal cord astrocytomas: progresses in experimental and clinical investigations for developing recovery neurobiology-based novel therapies. 
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy reirradiation for recurrent epidural spinal metastases. 
  • Stereotactic radiosurgery versus surgical resection for spinal hemangioblastoma: A systematic review. 
  • Sudden death from diffuse leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis. 
  • Surgical outcomes of pediatric spinal cord astrocytomas: systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Systemic considerations for the surgical treatment of spinal metastatic disease: a scoping literature review. 
  • Targeted Treatment of Experimental Spinal Cord Glioma With Dual Gene-Engineered Human Neural Stem Cells. 
  • Temozolomide in pediatric low-grade glioma. 
  • The Effects of Thermal Preconditioning on Oncogenic and Intraspinal Cord Growth Features of Human Glioma Cells. 
  • The role of concurrent fusion to prevent spinal deformity after intramedullary spinal cord tumor excision in children. 
  • Unusual presentation of an adult intramedullary spinal teratoma with diplomyelia. 
  • Vascular malformations presenting as spinal cord neoplasms: case report. 
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  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology