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Giant Cystic Intradural Lumbosacral Schwannoma: Is Stabilization Necessary?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Jeffrey S. Wilkinson ,
Sumeer A. Mann ,
Christopher A. Robinson  and
Daryl R. Fourney
Jeffrey S. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada
Sumeer A. Mann
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada
Christopher A. Robinson
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada
Daryl R. Fourney*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada
*
Division of Neurosurgery, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W8, Canada.
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , July 2010 , pp. 535 - 538
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