Microsurgical treatment of symptomatic sacral perineurial cysts

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1059-1065

  Guo, Dongsheng ^a   Shu, Kai ^a   Chen, Rudong ^a   Ke, Changshu ^a   Zhu, Yanchang ^a   Lei, Ting ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Sacral perineurial cysts; Tarlov cysts

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GELFOAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE INJURY; NERVE SHEATH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACRAL PERINEURIAL CYSTS; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; TARLOV CYSTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249803555     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255457.12978.78     Document Type: Article

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