Surgical treatment of a syringomyelia associated with an idiopathic arachnoid malformation disclosed by preoperative MRI

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 552-555

  Bruneau, Michaël ^a   Duprez, Thierry ^b   Rommel, Denis ^a   Raftopoulos, Christian ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arachnoid malformation; idiopathic syringomyelia; occult arachnoid abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LEG; MENINX DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PERONEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL ARACHNOID; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADULT; ARACHNOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9644272551     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.12.016     Document Type: Article

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