Kominami, Shushi MD, PhD*; Watanabe, Akira MD, PhD*; Akimoto, Masahiro MD, PhD†; Kobayashi, Shiro MD, PhD*; Teramoto, Akira MD, PhD‡
From the Departments of *Neurosurgery and †Plastic Surgery, Chiba-Hokuso Hospital, Nippon Medical School, Chiba, Japan, and ‡Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Received August 29, 2011.
Accepted for publication October 9, 2011.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Shushi Kominami, Department of Neurosurgery, Chiba-Hokuso Hospital, Nippon Medical School, 1715 Kamagari, Inzai, Chiba 270-1694, Japan; E-mail: [email protected]
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
doi: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e31824cd803