Cervical congenital midline meningoceles in adults

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 938-944

  Duz, Bulent ^a   Arslan, Erhan ^b   Gönül, Engin ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervical myelopathy; Meningocele; Spinal dysraphism; Tethered spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGOCELE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; KLIPPEL-FEIL SYNDROME; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MENINGOCELE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649140495     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000327577.49724.32     Document Type: Article

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