Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae: Clinical features and long-term results

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-166

  Narvid, Jared ^a   Hetts, Steven W ^a,d   Larsen, Donald ^b   Neuhaus, John ^a   Singh, Tejinder P ^a   McSwain, Hugh ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^c   Dowd, Christopher F ^a   Higashida, Randall T ^a   Halbach, Van V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Myelopathy; Outcomes; Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACKACHE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DURA MATER; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DISABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; VASCULARIZATION;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749103153     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000311073.71733.C4     Document Type: Article

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