Surgical prognosis in hindbrain related syringomyelia

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-21

  Asgari, Siamak ^a   Engelhorn, T ^a   Bschor, M ^a   Sandalcioglu, I E ^a   Stolke, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hindbrain herniation; Suboccipital decompression; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TONSIL; CISTERNA MAGNA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRANIECTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037267959     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2003.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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