Remnants of occipital vertebrae: Proatlas segmentation abnormalities

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 945-953

  Menezes, Arnold H ^a,b   Fenoy, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Basilar invagination; Brainstem compression; Chiari malformation; Craniovertebral abnormalities; Proatlas abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ATROPHY; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HERNIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION ANOMALY; DYSPHAGIA; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCIPITAL BONE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; QUADRIPLEGIA; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLURRED SPEECH; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLAS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CERVICAL ATLAS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650727373     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000345737.56767.B8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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