Extra-arachnoidal cranio-cervical decompression for syringomyelia associated with Chiari I malformation in adults: Technique assessment

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1015-1022

  Perrini, P ^a,b   Benedetto, N ^a   Tenenbaum, R ^a   Di Lorenzo, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Cranio cervical decompression; Surgical technique; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ARACHNOID; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 35148850589     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-007-1276-0     Document Type: Article

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