The effect of early craniocervical decompression on functional outcome in neonates and young infants with myelodysplasia and symptomatic chiari II malformations: Results from a prospective series

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 703-710

  Pollack, Ian F ^a   Kinnunen, Dorinne ^a   Albright, A Leland ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Chiari malformation; Children; Myelomeningocele

Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIECTOMY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MYELODYSPLASIA; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0029984586     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-199604000-00015     Document Type: Article

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