Limited dorsal myeloschisis: A distinctive clinicopathological entity

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1555-1579

  Pang, Dachling ^a,b   Zovickian, John ^b   Oviedo, Angelica ^c   Moes, Greg S ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Fibroneural stalk; Incomplete disjunction; Spinal dysraphism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT MALFORMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIMITED DORSAL MYELOSCHISIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOCYSTOCELE; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SKIN DEFECT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650511381     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f93e5a     Document Type: Article

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