Surgical outcome of patients with meningomyelocele treated with a team approach

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Faraji, Mohammad ^a,b   Ashrafzadeh, Farah ^a   Ariamanesh, Amirshahriar ^a   Faraji, Sanaz ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Congenital malformation; Meningomyelocele; Neural tube defect; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749335039     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-200606000-00007     Document Type: Article

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