Surgical treatment of chiari i malformation-analysis of intraoperative findings, complications, and outcome for 371 foramen magnum decompressions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 365-380

  Klekamp, Jörg ^a  

^a Christliches Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arachnoiditis; Basilar invagination; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATAXIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; DURAPLASTY; DYSESTHESIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORAMEN MAGNUM DECOMPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPESTHESIA; ILEUS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYRINGOMYELIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; COMORBIDITY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864239404     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31825c3426     Document Type: Article

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