Long-term results after posterior fossa decompression in syringomyelia with adult Chiari Type I malformation

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 381-387

  Alfieri, Alex ^a,b   Pinna, Giam Pietro ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Chiari Type I malformation; Posterior fossa decompression; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BASILAR IMPRESSION; CAUDAL REGRESSION SYNDROME; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COSTELLO SYNDROME; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEADACHE; HERNIA; HICCUP; HUMAN; HYPEROSTOSIS; HYPERTENSION; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; LEG THROMBOSIS; LIMB PAIN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTERIOR FOSSA DECOMPRESSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYRINGOMYELIA; TINNITUS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868349556     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.7.SPINE12272     Document Type: Article

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