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Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumors

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Textbook of Pediatric Neurosurgery

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The spinal cord is housed in a meningeal compartment and floats freely and weightlessly within cerebrospinal fluid. The meninges and its contents are housed in a bony spinal canal. The spinal cord and the spinal roots snugly fit in the cervical spinal canal and are relatively less compact in the dorsal region. The spinal canal is widest at the level of the atlas. The lumbar spinal canal provides a watery cul-de-sac for cauda equina nerves.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India

    Atul Goel

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  1. International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany

    Concezio Di Rocco

  2. Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, California, USA

    Dachling Pang

  3. University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    James T. Rutka

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  1. Davis; and Kaiser Permanente Hospitals of Northern California, University of California, Oakland, USA

    Dachling Pang

  2. Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

    Dominic Thompson

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Goel, A. (2017). Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Tumors. In: Di Rocco, C., Pang, D., Rutka, J. (eds) Textbook of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31512-6_130-1

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