A population based study of intracranial arachnoid cysts: Clinical and neuroimaging outcomes following surgical cyst decompression in adults

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1129-1135

  Helland, Christian A ^a,b   Wester, Knut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGROMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HEADACHE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORWAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTERIOR FOSSA; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34848866293     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.107995     Document Type: Article

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