Comparison of results between two different techniques of cranio-cervical decompression in patients with Chiari I malformation

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 337-345

  Kunert, Przemysław ^a   Janowski, Mirosław ^a   Zakrzewska, Agnieszka ^a   Marchel, Andrzej ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chiari I malformation; Cranio cervical decompression; Surgical treatment duroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCISION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGITIS; PARESIS; RANKIN SCALE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYRINGOMYELIA; VERTIGO; ADOLESCENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449719187     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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