Lumbar cerebrospinal fluid drainage for symptomatic sacral nerve root cysts: An adjuvant diagnostic procedure and/or alternative treatment? Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 861-865

  Bartels, Ronald H M A ^a   Van Overbeeke, Jacobus J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CSF diversion; Lumboperitoneal shunt; Meningeal cyst; Perineural cyst; Sacral nerve root cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MYELOGRAPHY; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM;

BACK PAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CYSTS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0030897186     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199704000-00044     Document Type: Article

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