Expansile cranioplasty for massive occipital encephalocele

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1170-1176

  Mohanty, Aaron ^a,b   Biswas, Arundhati ^a   Reddy, Madhusudan ^a   Kolluri, Sastry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Expansile cranioplasty; Microcephaly; Occipital encephalocele

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748151448     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0110-y     Document Type: Article

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