World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 194-197 , March 2010

Intradural cranial chordoma

  • Eiji Ito, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan
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  • Kiyoshi Saito, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 52 744 2353; fax: +81 52 744 2360.
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  • Tetsuya Nagatani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan
    • ,
  • Junzo Ishiyama, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital, Shizuoka 422-8527, Japan
    • ,
  • Koichi Terada, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hekinan Municipal Hospital, Hekinan 447-8502, Japan
    • ,
  • Mitsuhiro Yoshida, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Yokkaichi Municipal Hospital, Yokkaichi 510-8567, Japan
    • ,
  • Toshihiko Wakabayashi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan

Received 3 September 2008 ,Accepted 5 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.01.003

World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 194-197 , March 2010

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