are removed during decompression of the posterior fossa. Following bone decompression and expansile duraplasty, normal CSF flow is reestablished (lower right panel), and pressure on the medulla ...

One of these new treatments involves performing posterior fossa decompression, based on the belief that patients with chronic fatigue have a smaller than normal posterior fossa and therefore an ...

Medical illustration by Bailey Mariner The most common type of surgery for CM is called posterior fossa decompression. This procedure creates additional space around the lower part of the brain ...

The treatment uses 2 classes of operative approach: the posterior fossa decompression and shunting of the syrinx cavity. Shunting involves shunting the cavity to the subarachnoid, pleural ...

posterior fossa decompression, upper cervical laminectomy and augmenting duraplasty. 1 Phase contrast cine-MRI made it possible to evaluate the altered cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in patients ...

Results showed use of a posterior facet replacement device may provide adequate decompression and dynamic stabilization in patients with lumbar stenosis with degenerative spondylolisthesis.

Chiari malformations are a heterogeneous group of disorders comprising abnormalities associated with the hindbrain. The most common types are Chiari 1 malformation (CM-I) and Chiari 2 malformation ...

Anterior decompression required an extra 70 minutes of operating time vs. posterior decompression. LAS VEGAS — Results presented here showed anterior decompression and fusion via a ...

She also had a cyst in her spine. Article continues below In December last year, Nia had an operation called posterior fossa decompression where surgeons removed a small section of bone in the ...