Acquired Chiari type l malformation managed by supratentorial cranial enlargement

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 800-807

  di Rocco, Concezio ^a   Velardi, Francesco ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acquired chiari type I malformation; Chiari malformations; Cranial enlargement; Craniocephalic disproportion; Lumbo peritoneal shunt; Ventriculo peritoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346264861     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0837-7     Document Type: Article

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