Institutional experience of endoscopic suprasellar arachnoid cyst fenestration

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1345-1347

  Rizk, Elias ^a   Chern, Joshua J ^a   Tagayun, Christine ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^a   Hankinson, Todd ^a   Rozzelle, Curtis ^a   Oakes, W Jerry ^a   Blount, Jeffrey P ^a   Wellons, John C ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystoperitoneal shunt; Fenestration; Intracranial arachnoid cysts; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPRASELLAR ARACHNOID CYST; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VENTRICULOCYSTOCISTERNOSTOMY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84880802902     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2032-9     Document Type: Article

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