Cervical spinal cord infarction after posterior fossa surgery: A case-based update

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1541-1546

  Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a   Almagro, María José ^a   Izura, Virginia ^a   Serrano, Cristina ^a   Ruiz Espejo, Antonio M ^a   Sánchez Del Rincón, Isabel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cervical cord infarction; Cervical cord injury; Ependymoma; Intraoperative arterial hypotension; Intraoperative venous air embolism; Posterior fossa surgery complication; Sitting position

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ANOREXIA; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ASTROCYTOMA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INFARCTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CHILD; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPOTENSION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NECK PAIN; NEUROGRAPHY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOMOTHERAPY; TRACHEOTOMY; VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARAPLEGIA; PRONE POSITION; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 70449529500     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0950-3     Document Type: Review

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