Presentation and management of Chiari I malformation in children

Pediatric Neurosurgery
J K ParkR M Scott

Abstract

To determine the efficacy of operative treatment for children with Chiari I malformation, the medical records and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of 68 consecutive patients cared for at The Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA, from December, 1988 to November, 1996 were retrospectively reviewed. All patients underwent suboccipital craniectomy, C1 laminectomy, and dural grafting. Bipolar coagulation to shrink and reduce the volume of the cerebellar tonsils was carried out in 40 patients. In 32 of 40 patients with associated syringomyelia, the procedure included placement of a IVth ventricle to cervical subarachnoid space shunt. Twenty-three patients with syringomyelia also had plugging of the obex. There was no operative mortality. Morbidity included a 22% incidence of nausea/vomiting and a 10% incidence of headache, both limited to the immediate postoperative period. Within the first postoperative month, all patients or their parents reported clear improvement in their presenting symptoms and 93% were found to have clear improvement in their presenting signs. In follow-up periods of 6-70 months, all patients had continued unequivocal symptom improvement and all patients were found on examination to have clear improv...Continue Reading

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