Chiari I malformation redefined: Clinical and radiographic findings for 364 symptomatic patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1005-1017

  Milhorat, Thomas H ^a,b   Chou, Mike W ^a,b   Trinidad, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Kula, Roger W ^a,b   Mandell, Menachem ^a   Wolpert, Chantelle ^c   Speer, Marcy C ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar invagination; Cerebellar ectopia; Chiari malformation; Cranial base dysplasia; Genetic transmission; Hydrocephalus; Meniere's syndrome; Pseudotumor cerebri; Scoliosis; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIGREE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCOLIOSIS; SKULL BASE; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PEDIGREE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYRINGOMYELIA; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0032907185     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199905000-00042     Document Type: Article

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