Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation

We present the case of a 22-year-old who developed severe neck pain within two weeks after undergoing posterior fossa decompression for a symptomatic Chiari I malformation. A diagnosis of cerebellar ptosis was made after magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and he underwent a partial cranioplasty, follo...

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Autores principales: Shankar, Anagha, Johny, Mishal, Vadekkatt Sambhukumar, Priya, Ayyappan Kutty, Shankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Pain Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37009358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35635
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author Shankar, Anagha
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Ayyappan Kutty, Shankar
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description We present the case of a 22-year-old who developed severe neck pain within two weeks after undergoing posterior fossa decompression for a symptomatic Chiari I malformation. A diagnosis of cerebellar ptosis was made after magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and he underwent a partial cranioplasty, following which his symptoms resolved. The pathology, diagnostic criteria, and management options are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-100653092023-04-01 Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation Shankar, Anagha Johny, Mishal Vadekkatt Sambhukumar, Priya Ayyappan Kutty, Shankar Cureus Pain Management We present the case of a 22-year-old who developed severe neck pain within two weeks after undergoing posterior fossa decompression for a symptomatic Chiari I malformation. A diagnosis of cerebellar ptosis was made after magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and he underwent a partial cranioplasty, following which his symptoms resolved. The pathology, diagnostic criteria, and management options are discussed. Cureus 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10065309/ /pubmed/37009358 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35635 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shankar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title_full Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title_fullStr Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title_full_unstemmed Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title_short Symptomatic Cerebellar Ptosis After Wide Foramen Magnum Decompression for Chiari I Malformation
title_sort symptomatic cerebellar ptosis after wide foramen magnum decompression for chiari i malformation
topic Pain Management
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065309/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35635
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