Symptomatic chiari type I malformation after radiation therapy in an infant: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hoffman, Caitlin E ^a   Lis, Eric ^b   Wolden, Suzanne L ^b   Souweidane, Mark M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Cranial maturation; Radiation therapy; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Skull maturation; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; TOPOTECAN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHIARI I MALFORMATION; CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LAMINECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NECK TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOID TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CERVICAL SPINE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INFANT; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147220933     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255357.09819.58     Document Type: Article

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