Arachnoid cysts

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 724, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-50

  Westermaier, Thomas ^a   Schweitzer, Tilmann ^a   Ernestus, Ralf Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE;

ANASTOMOSIS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUID TRANSPORT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ARACHNOID; CRANIOTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARACHNOID; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 84859507034     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0653-2_3     Document Type: Article

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