Improved symptoms and lifestyle more than 20 years after untethering surgery for primary tethered cord syndrome

Neurourology and Urodynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1333-1337

  Fukui, Junnosuke ^a   Ohotsuka, Kuniyoshi ^b   Asagai, Yoshimi ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Nagano Rehabilitation Center   (Japan)

^c Shinano Handicapped Children's Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

activities of daily life after untethering surgery; postoperative assessment of quality of life; postoperative long term follow up observation; primary tethered cord syndrome; untethering surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FILUM TERMINALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT STATURE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINATION; URINATION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052057758     PISSN: 07332467     EISSN: 15206777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nau.21176     Document Type: Article

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