Surgical Management of Meningeal Cysts, Including Perineural (Tarlov) Cysts and Meningeal Diverticula

Seminars in Spine Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 154-160

  Feigenbaum, Frank ^a   Henderson, Fraser ^b  

^a Midwest Neurosurgery Associates   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

meningeal cyst; meningeal diverticulum; perineural cyst; Tarlov cyst

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BONE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROPATHY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAMINECTOMY; LIGATION; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGEAL DIVERTICULA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPINAL CORD CYST; SYMPTOM; TARLOV CYST; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33748097819     PISSN: 10407383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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