Craniovertebral junction database analysis: Incidence, classification, presentation, and treatment algorithms

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1101-1108

  Menezes, Arnold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Craniocervical junction; Klippel Feil syndrome; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASILAR TYPE MIGRAINE; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION ABNORMALITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SKULL DISEASE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TORTICOLLIS; WEAKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 51749110253     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0605-9     Document Type: Article

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