Correlation of functional outcome and natural history with clinicoradiological factors in surgically managed pediatric chiari i malformation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 319-328

  Furtado, Sunil V ^a   Thakar, Sumit ^a   Hegde, Alangar S ^a  

^a SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chiari I malformation; MRI; Outcome; Pediatric; Surgery; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASGARI SCORING SYSTEM; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORAMEN MAGNUM; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; STEROID THERAPY; SUPRASELLAR GERMINOMA; TONSIL;

ADOLESCENT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951671834     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820206e5     Document Type: Article

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