Preoperative MRI analysis of patients with idiopathic scoliosis: A prospective study

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-114

  Inoue, Masatoshi ^a,b   Minami, Shohei ^a   Nakata, Yoshinori ^a   Otsuka, Yoshinori ^a   Takaso, Masashi ^a   Kitahara, Hiroshi ^a   Tokunaga, Makoto ^a   Isobe, Keijiro ^a   Moriya, Hideshige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chiba Higashi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Idiopathic scoliosis; MRI; Neurologic complication; Syringomyelia; Tonsillar ectopia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACKACHE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY CONE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORACIC SPINE;

EID: 13444255973     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000149075.96242.0e     Document Type: Review

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