Posterior cranial fossa morphometry in symptomatic adult Chiari I malformation patients: Comparative clinical and anatomical study

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 399-403

  Dagtekin, Ahmet ^a   Avci, Emel ^a   Kara, Engin ^a   Uzmansel, Deniz ^a   Dagtekin, Oykut ^a   Koseoglu, Aslihan ^a   Talas, Derya ^a   Bagdatoglu, Celal ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation Type I; Morphometric study; Occipital bone hypoplasia; Posterior cranial fossa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASIOCCIPUT; BASISPHENOID; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIVUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL; SUPRAOCCIPUT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CEREBELLUM; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SKULL; SKULL BASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955802955     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.12.020     Document Type: Article

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