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      <journal-title>Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2141-2286</issn>      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Academic Journals</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5897/JNBH2015.0132</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title><![CDATA[Spinal cystic schwannoma: A rare case report]]></article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>Koshi</surname>
            <given-names>Ninomiya</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>Koichi</surname>
            <given-names>Iwatsuki</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>Akira</surname>
            <given-names>Murasawa</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>Kazutami</surname>
            <given-names>Nakao</given-names>
	          </name>	
        		        	<name name-style="western">
	            <surname>Toshiki</surname>
            <given-names>Yoshimine</given-names>
	          </name>	
        	        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
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		<corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email xlink:type="simple">k-ninomiya@nsurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
      	<day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
      			<date date-type="received">
			<day>05</day>
			<month>08</month>
			<year>2015</year>
		</date>
						<date date-type="accepted">
			<day>01</day>
			<month>03</month>
			<year>2016</year>
		</date>
			  </history>
      <volume>8</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
	  	  <fpage>9</fpage>
	  <lpage>12</lpage>
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      <abstract><![CDATA[A 78-year-old man was referred to our department with severe low back pain and gait disturbance. Lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a large, well-circumscribed mass isointense with cerebrospinal fluid on T1- and T2-weighted imaging at the conus level. Arachnoid cyst without performing contrast-enhanced MRI was initially diagnosed. Intraoperative observation and postoperative histopathological examination revealed totally cystic schwannoma. Contrast-enhanced MRI is very important for the diagnosis of this rare tumor and should have been performed in this case.

	 

	Key words: Totally cystic schwannoma, arachnoid cyst, magnetic resonance imaging.]]></abstract>
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