Posterior cranial fossa volume in patients with rickets: insights into the increased occurrence of Chiari I malformation in metabolic bone disease

• Published in: Neurosurgery Vol. 55; no. 2; p. 380
• Main Authors: Tubbs, R Shane, Webb, Daniel, Abdullatif, Hussein, Conklin, Michael, Doyle, Scott, Oakes, W Jerry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2004
• Subjects: Adolescent; Arnold-Chiari Malformation - diagnosis; Bone Diseases, Metabolic - diagnosis; Child; Child, Preschool; Cranial Fossa, Posterior - pathology; Encephalocele - diagnosis; Female; Humans; Hyperplasia - diagnosis; Hyperplasia - pathology; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Infant; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mathematical Computing; Platybasia - diagnosis; Reference Values; Retrospective Studies; Rhombencephalon - pathology; Rickets - diagnosis; Risk Factors; Skull - pathology; Tomography, Spiral Computed

Some have proposed that the calvarial thickening seen in patients with rickets results in an increased rate of Chiari I malformation (CIM) in these patients. The present study measures the posterior fossa volume in children with rickets to verify previous case reports indicting a small posterior fos...