Pediatric intracranial arachnoid cysts: Comparative effectiveness of surgical treatment options

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 461-469

  Ali, Zarina S ^a   Lang, Shih Shan ^a   Bakar, Dara ^a   Storm, Phillip B ^a,b   Stein, Sherman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cyst fenestration; Endoscopic surgery; Pediatric; Quality effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIOTOMY; DIPLOPIA; ENDOSCOPIC FENESTRATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPILEPSY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ARACHNOID CYST; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REOPERATION; SHUNT INFECTION; UNILATERAL BLINDNESS; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARACHNOID CYSTS; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REOPERATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903366966     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2306-2     Document Type: Article

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