Spinal cord edema preceding syringomyelia associated with Chiari I malformation - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 410-413

  Itoh, Yasunobu ^a   Kuwahara, Naoyuki ^a   Sasajima, Toshio ^a   Mizoi, Kazuo ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiari I malformation; Foramen magnum decompression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Spinal cord edema; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; METHIONINE DERIVATIVE; METHYL GROUP;

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARESTHESIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD EDEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LAMINECTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0036737584     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.410     Document Type: Article

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