Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumor outcomes using the WeeFIM scale.
Thomas NohManuel S VogtDavid W PruittTrent R HummelFrancesco T ManganoPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2018)
The WeeFIM scale is an appropriate and useful scale for measuring postoperative improvements in patients with IMSCTs undergoing aggressive resective surgery. Attention to intraoperative spinal cord monitoring and prevention of spinal column instability may prevent morbidity related to surgery, and functional outcomes do not appear to be compromised by an aggressive surgical approach.