Surgical treatment of Chiari malformation with and without syringomyelia: Experience with 177 adult patients ; Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 232-242

  Batzdorf, Ulrich ^a   Mcarthur, David L ^a   Bentson, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation; Foramen magnum decompression; Obesity; Subarachnoid cisterns; Syringomyelia; Tonsil reduction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BODY MASS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYGROMA; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEURALGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873648709     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.10.JNS12305     Document Type: Review

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