Clinical outcomes in patients with Chiari I malformation: A review of 27 cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 142-147

  Dones, José ^a   De Jesús, Orlando ^a   Colen, Chaim B ^a   Toledo, María M ^a   Delgado, Mariel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Clinical outcomes; Outcome; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHIARI I MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DIPLOPIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; NYSTAGMUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; SYMPTOM; SYRINGOMYELIA; VERTIGO;

EID: 0043124265     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00131-9     Document Type: Article

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