Long-term outcome of neurosurgical untethering on neurosegmental motor and ambulation levels

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 551-555

  Schoenmakers, M A G C ^a   Gooskens, R H J M ^a   Gulmans, V A M ^a   Hanlo, P W ^a   Vandertop, W P ^b   Uiterwaal, C S P M ^c   Helders, P J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSRAPHISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; WOUND INFECTION;

CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIPOMA; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038298322     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001002     Document Type: Article

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