Slow progression and benign course of a primary malign melanoma of a lumbar nerve root

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2012 Feb;114(2):166-8. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.09.012. Epub 2011 Oct 20.

Authors

Ozan Ganiüsmen¹, Füsun Demirçivi Özer, Mesut Mete, Nail Özdemir, Ümit Bayol

Affiliation

¹ Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital Department of Neurosurgery, Izmir, Turkey.

PMID: 22018994
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.09.012

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Disease Progression
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Immunohistochemistry
Lumbar Vertebrae
Lumbosacral Region
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Melanocytes / pathology
Melanoma / diagnostic imaging
Melanoma / pathology*
Melanoma / surgery
Middle Aged
Neurosurgical Procedures
Positron-Emission Tomography
Spinal Cord Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Neoplasms / pathology*
Spinal Cord Neoplasms / surgery
Spinal Nerve Roots / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Nerve Roots / pathology*
Spinal Nerve Roots / surgery
Spine / diagnostic imaging
Spine / pathology