Posterior fossa decompression without duraplasty in infants and young children for treatment of chiari malformation and achondroplasia

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 221-226

  Yundt, Kent D ^a   Park, T S ^a   Tantuwaya, Vrijesh S ^a   Kaufman, Bruce A ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Achondroplasia; Chiari malformations; Duraplasty; Intraoperative ultrasound; Posterior fossa decompression

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ARTICLE; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURA MATER; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0030404425     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121129     Document Type: Article

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