Institutional experience with cranial vault encephaloceles

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 22-25

  Bui, Cuong J ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^a,b   Shannon, Chevis N ^a   Acakpo Satchivi, Leslie ^a   Wellons III, John C ^a   Blount, Jeffrey P ^a   Oakes, W Jerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Cranial vault; Encephalocele; Pediatric neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOTOMY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL BONE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCIPITAL BONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ALABAMA; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL BONE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34547660522     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED-07/07/022     Document Type: Article

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