Incidence of basioccipital hypoplasia in Chiari malformation Type I: Comparative morphometric study of the posterior cranial fossa - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1046-1052

  Noudel, Rémy ^a   Jovenin, Nicolas ^b   Eap, Cristophe ^a   Scherpereel, Bernard ^a   Pierot, Laurent ^b   Rousseaux, Pascal ^a  

^a HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Basioccipital hypoplasia; Chiari malformation type I; Hindbrain related syringomyelia; Morphometric study; Posterior cranial fossa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASIOCCIPITAL HYPOPLASIA; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL MALFORMATION; SYRINGOMYELIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL BASE; SYRINGOMYELIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849128794     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.JNS08284     Document Type: Article

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