Interstitial spinal-cord oedema in syringomyelia associated with Chiari type 1 malformations

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1153-1158

  Akiyama, Y ^a   Koyanagi, I ^a   Yoshifuji, K ^a   Murakami, T ^a   Baba, T ^a   Minamida, Y ^a   Nonaka, T ^a   Houkin, K ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENCHYMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD EDEMA; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 53149089064     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.133959     Document Type: Article

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