Craniopagus: The Suriname-Amsterdam conjunction

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 625-634

  van Ouwerkerk, W J R ^a   van den Berg, R ^a   Sibarani, R ^a   van Wijk, J A E ^a   Smit, L M E ^a   ten Voorde, B J ^a   de Munck, J ^a   Kurk, C A ^a   Velthuys, M E ^a   van Leeuwen, E ^a   Bemmel, L ^b   Vandertop, W P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Diaconessen Hospital   (Suriname)

Author keywords

Balloon occlusion; Cerebral angiography; Computer assisted image processing; Conjoined twins; Medical ethics; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJOINED TWINS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIOPAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKULL DEFECT; SURINAME; SURVIVAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURINAME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 4544236330     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-0977-4     Document Type: Article

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