Anomalous venous drainage preventing safe posterior fossa decompression in patients with Chiari malformation Type I and multisutural craniosynostosis: Report of two cases and review of the literature

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 490-494

  Sandberg, David I ^a   Navarro, Ramon ^b   Blanch, Josep ^b   Ragheb, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Hydrocephalus; Pediatric neurosurgery; Venous anomaly

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN VEIN; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBRAL VEINS; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250890878     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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