Minor skin lesions as markers of occult spinal dysraphisms - Prospective study

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Henriques, José Gilberto De Brito ^a   Pianetti, Geraldo ^a,b   Henriques, Karina Santos Wandeck ^a   Costa, Petrônio ^a,b   Gusmão, Sebastião ^a,b  

^a 30190 001 Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Occult spinal dysraphism; Skin marker; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAIR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONAL MONITORING; PISTIL STIGMA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN DEFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; ULTRASOUND; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SKIN ABNORMALITIES; SOCIAL CLASS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINE;

EID: 11144239775     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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