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The surgical treatment of syringomyelia. Long-term results

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Twenty-eight patients with syringomyelia were treated by syringostomy, suboccipital craniotomy, CSF shunt, or a combination of these. In the first months and years after surgery 10 patients were improved. The late results, with the average observation time of 4 years, were less favourable: 4 patients improved, 12 were unchanged, 7 were worse and 5 were dead.

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  1. K. Faulhauer & K. Loew

    Present address: Neurosurgical Clinic of the Saarland University, Homburg, Saar, Federal Republic of Germany

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    Faulhauer, K., Loew, K. The surgical treatment of syringomyelia. Long-term results. Acta neurochir 44, 215–222 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402063

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