Effect of cerebrospinal fluid shunting on experimental syringomyelia: Magnetic resonance imaging and histological findings

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 668-676

  Takahashi, Ayumi ^a   Tamaki, Norihiko ^a   Kurata, Hiromitsu ^a   Nagashima, Tatsuya ^a   Fujimoto, Etsuko ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimental syringomyelia; Histopathology; Magnetic resonance imaging; Shunting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; GRAY MATTER; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RABBIT; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0032886524     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.668     Document Type: Article

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