Peripheral neurotomy for torticollis: A new approach

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 77, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 40-43

  Taira, Takaomi ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Peripheral denervation; Spasmodic torticollis; Ventral rhizotomy

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; BERTRAND PROCEDURE; BLEEDING; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NEUROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RHIZOTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORTICOLLIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DURA MATER; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NECK MUSCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCESSORY NERVE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; HUMANS; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NECK MUSCLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHIZOTOMY; SENSATION DISORDERS; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035554206     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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