GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF THE LUMBAR SPINE - CASE-REPORT

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İNCİ M. S., AKBAY A., BERTAN V.

PARAPLEGIA, vol.31, no.6, pp.412-414, 1993 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 31 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 1993
  • Doi Number: 10.1038/sc.1993.69
  • Journal Name: PARAPLEGIA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.412-414
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Giant-cell tumours of the spine are very rare. They occur mainly in long bones. We report a patient with a giant-cell tumour of the lumbar spine which had been operated on at another hospital 5 months previously as a protruded lumbar intervertebral disc.