Variable presentations of Currarino syndrome in three members of the same family

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1169-1173

  Bunc, Gorazd ^a   Ravnik, Janez ^a   Voršič, Matjaž ^a   Ravnik, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Currarino syndrome; Meningocele; Presacral mass; Surgery; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURRARINO SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOMA;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MENINGOCELE; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOLOGY; RECTUM; SACRUM; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SYNDROME; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 69249230981     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0220-x     Document Type: Article

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