Comprehensive assessment of 1-year outcomes and determination of minimum clinically important difference in pain, disability, and quality of life after suboccipital decompression for Chiari Malformation i in adults

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 569-581

  Parker, Scott L ^a   Godil, Saniya S ^a   Zuckerman, Scott L ^a   Mendenhall, Stephen K ^a   Wells, John A ^a   Shau, David N ^a   McGirt, Matthew J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiari malformation I; Minimum clinically important difference; Patient reported outcomes; Suboccipital craniectomy; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID; ARACHNOID LYSIS; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURAPLASTY; DUROTOMY; EURO QOL 5D; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEADACHE DISABILITY INDEX; HEALTH TRANSITION INDEX; HUMAN; JAPANESE ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION SCORE; LAMINECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; LYSIS; MALE; MENINGOCELE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NECK DISABILITY INDEX; NECK PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; NORTH AMERICAN SPINE SOCIETY SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIMARY DURAL CLOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMENINGOCELE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETURN TO WORK; SHORT FORM 12; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SUBOCCIPITAL CRANIECTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYRINX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885074149     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000032     Document Type: Article

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