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Long-term outcomes of posterior fossa decompression for Chiari malformation type 1: which patients are most prone to failure?

Khashayar MozaffariLaurence DavidsonEric ChalifTiffany N PhanAndrew D SparksJohn S MyserosChima O OluigboRobert F Keating
Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2021)
PFD provides a safe treatment option with similar clinical improvements and lower post-operative complication rate compared to PFDD, albeit at the cost of greater chance of reoperation, especially in the setting of a holocord syrinx. Patients with a holocord syrinx should be considered for a PFDD as their initial procedure.
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