When is duraplasty required in the surgical treatment of Chiari malformation type I based on tonsillar descending grading scale?

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-313

  Yilmaz, Adem ^a   Kanat, Ayhan ^b   Musluman, Ahmet Murat ^a   Çolak, Ibrahim ^a   Terzi, Yuksel ^c   Kayaci, Selim ^d   Aydin, Yunus ^a  

^a Sisli Research and Education Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^b RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Sar Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebellar tonsillar descent grading; Chiari malformation type I; Posterior fossa decompression duraplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURAPLASTY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RATING SCALE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TONSILLAR DESCENDING GRADING SCALE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79953854498     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.09.005     Document Type: Review

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