Microsurgical excision of symptomatic sacral perineurial cysts: A study of 15 cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-105

  Caspar, Wolfhard ^a   Papavero, Luca ^b   Nabhan, Abdullah ^a   Loew, Cornelius ^a   Ahlhelm, Frank ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duraplasty; Microsurgical cyst excision; Sacral nerve root cyst; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DURAPLASTY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADICULOPATHY; SACRAL PERINEURAL CYST; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINE SURGERY;

EID: 0037297748     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(02)00981-3     Document Type: Article

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