Pain improvement in patients with syringomyelia and Chiari I malformation treated with suboccipital decompression and tonsillar coagulation

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 531-534

  Prat, R ^a   Galeano, I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Decompressive surgery; Pain; Syringomyelia; Tonsil

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RATING SCALE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TONSIL; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYRINGOMYELIA; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61649114168     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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