Positive and negative predictors for good outcome after decompressive surgery for chiari malformation type 1 as scored on the chicago chiari outcome scale

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 694-700

  Hekman, Katherine E ^a   Aliaga, Leonardo ^a   Straus, David ^b   Luther, Aman ^a   Chen, Judy ^a   Sampat, Ajay ^a   Frim, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arnold chiari malformation type 1; Outcome assessment; Patient; Prognosis; Surgery; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CHICAGO CHIARI OUTCOME SCALE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTERIOR FOSSA DECOMPRESSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RATING SCALE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865117622     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000066     Document Type: Article

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