The co-occurrence of Chiari type 1 malformation with syringomyelia and total situs inversus

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Serarslan, Yurdal ^a,c   Melek, Ismet M ^a   Duman, Taşkin ^a   Eraslan, Turali ^b   Akdemir, Gökhan ^a   Yalçin, Fatih ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Adapazari State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c Clinic of Neurology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chiari type 1 malformation; Syringomyelia; Total situs inversus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOME; DEXTROCARDIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSESTHESIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SITUS INVERSUS; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SITUS INVERSUS; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548672877     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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