Primary myelomeningocele closure and consequences

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 465-468

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,b   Schwarz, Manfred ^a   Perneczky, Axel ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Hydrocephalus; Myelomeningocele; Neurosurgery; Tethered cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FETUS SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDROMYELIA; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIQUORRHEA; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; NYSTAGMUS; OPISTHOTONUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNTING; SPASTICITY; SPINAL ARACHNOID; SPINE MALFORMATION; STRIDOR; SYMPTOM; SYRINGOMYELIA; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TORTICOLLIS; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0036855019     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-200211000-00003     Document Type: Review

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