Imaging of Congenital Spine and Spinal Cord Malformations

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 659-676

  Rufener, Stephanie ^a,b   Ibrahim, Mohannad ^a   Parmar, Hemant A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Mount Scott Diagnostic Imaging Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital; Spinal cord; Spine; Spine embryology; Spine imaging

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CAUDAL AGENESIS; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; DURA MATER; FILUM TERMINALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEMIMYELOCELE; HEMIMYELOMENINGOCELE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING; LIPOMA; MENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MYELOCYSTOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINAL LIPOMA; TERMINAL MYELOCYSTOCELE;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINE;

EID: 79960908174     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: 15579867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.05.011     Document Type: Review

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