Surgical results of sacral perineural (Tarlov) cysts

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-70

  Tanaka, Masato ^a   Nakahara, Shinnosuke ^b   Ito, Yasuo ^c   Nakanishi, Kazuo ^a   Sugimoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Ikuma, Hisanori ^a   Ozaki, Toshifumi ^d  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION OKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Kobe Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meningeal cyst; Meningeal diverticulum; Sacral perineural cyst; Sacral radiculopathy; Tarlov cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRUM; TARLOV CYST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; TARLOV CYSTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645843073     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: 0386300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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