Posterior fossa arachnoid cysts and cerebellar tonsillar descent: Short review

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-314

  Galarza, Marcelo ^a   López Guerrero, Antonio López ^a   Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cerebellum; Cerebral dysgenesis; Chiari type 1 malformation; Hydrocephalus; Posterior fossa; Syringomyelia; Tonsillar descent

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASILAR IMPRESSION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CISTERNA MAGNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ADULT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956462438     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-010-0262-9     Document Type: Article

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