Evidence of posterior fossa hypoplasia in the familial variant of adult Chiari I malformation: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 401-404

  Atkinson, John L D ^a   Kokmen, Emre ^a   Miller, Gary M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari I malformation; Cranial base; Familial syndromes; Occipital bone; Posterior cranial fossa; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE;

EID: 0031951742     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199802000-00129     Document Type: Article

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