Split cord malformation and situs inversus totalis: Case report and review of the literature

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-134

  Tubbs, Richard Shane ^a,b   Wellons III, John C ^b   Oakes, W Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateralization; Occult spinal dysraphism; Symmetry; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ATRACURIUM; AZO DYE; COLCHICINE; CYTOCHALASIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIDOCAINE; LITHIUM; NITROUS OXIDE; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SYNDECAN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPAN BLUE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUMBAR SPINE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SITUS INVERSUS; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SPLIT CORD MALFORMATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REVIEW LITERATURE; SITUS INVERSUS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1342346347     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0857-3     Document Type: Article

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