Comprehensive short-term outcome assessment of selective dorsal rhizotomy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 765-771

  Trost, Joyce P ^a,b   Schwartz, Michael H ^a   Krach, Linda E ^b   Dunn, Mary E ^b   Novacheck, Tom F ^a  

^a Center for Gait and Motion Analysis   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; REHABILITATION CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SKIN DISEASE; SPASTICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEAKNESS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52949095740     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03031.x     Document Type: Article

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