Cervical cord tethering due to split cord malformation at the cervico-dorsal junction presenting with self-mutilation of the fingers

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 844-848

  Myles, L M ^a   Steers, A J W ^a   Minns, R ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER AMPUTATION; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LIMB MOVEMENT; MENINGOCELE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; THORACIC SPINE; VASCULAR LESION;

FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0036890263     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2002.tb00775.x     Document Type: Article

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