Angular craniometry in craniocervical junction malformation

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 603-610

  Botelho, Ricardo Vieira ^a,b,c,d   Ferreira, Edson Dener Zandonadi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASSISTÊNCIA MÉDICA AO SERVIDOR PÚBLICO ESTADUAL   (Brazil)

^b Pediatric Gastroenterologist   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL DO SERVIDOR PÚBLICO ESTADUAL DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arnold Chiari malformation; Basilar invagination; Cephalometry; Platybasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR CRANIOMETRY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASAL ANGLE; BASILAR IMPRESSION; BOOGARD ANGLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CERVICAL LORDOSIS; CERVICAL LORDOSIS ANGLE; CLIVUS; CLIVUS CANAL ANGLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOCERVICAL JUNCTION MALFORMATION; CRANIOCERVICAL KYPHOSIS; CRANIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEPHALOMETRY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LORDOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATYBASIA; SPINE;

EID: 84884821010     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0471-0     Document Type: Article

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