Posterior fossa volume increase after surgery for Chiari malformation Type I: A quantitative assessment using magnetic resonance imaging and correlations with the treatment response - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 647-658

  Noudel, Rémy ^a   Gomis, Philippe ^a   Sotoares, Gustavo ^b   Bazin, Arnaud ^a   Pierot, Laurent ^a   Pruvo, Jean Pierre ^b   Bordet, Régis ^c   Roche, Pierre Hugues ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d University Hospital of Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation Type I; Magnetic resonance imaging; Occipital craniectomy size; Posterior fossa decompression; Posterior fossa volume

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASIOCCIPUT; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CISTERNA MAGNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIECTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTERIOR FOSSA VOLUME; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SUPRAOCCIPUT; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052379333     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.11.JNS102148     Document Type: Article

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