Craniovertebral junction abnormalities with hindbrain herniation and syringomyelia: Regression of syringomyelia after removal of ventral craniovertebral junction compression - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-309

  Menezes, Arnold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar invagination; Brainstem compression; Chiari malformation; Craniovertebral junction; Skull base; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HERNIA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION ABNORMALITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMISSION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SYRINGOMYELIA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 84856796337     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.9.JNS11386     Document Type: Article

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