The patient with symptoms following resection of a lipomyelomeningocele: Do increases in the lumbosacral angle indicate a tethered spinal cord?

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 62-64

  Tubbs, R Shane ^a,b   Naftel, Robert P ^a   Rice, William C ^a   Liechty, Peter ^a   Conklin, Michael ^a   Oakes, W Jerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipomyelomeningocele; Lumbosacral angle; Pediatric neurosurgery; Tethered spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SACRUM;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SACRUM; SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33748458682     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/ped.2006.105.1.62     Document Type: Article

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