Meningeal hemangiopericytoma of the posterior fossa and thoracic spinal epidural space: case report.
The rare combination of spinal and intracranial meningeal hemangiopericytomas in the same patient is reported. The coexistence of cerebral and spinal meningiomas of all histological subtypes is distinctly uncommon with only nine cases found in the literature.
Radley
M G
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Division of Neurological Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York.
McDonald
J V
JV
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