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01-07-2016 | Cover Editorial
Chiari IV malformation: correcting an over one century long historical error
Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 7/2016
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Hans Chiari (1851–1916) (Fig. 1) gave the first detailed illustrations of what is now termed the Chiari malformations. In 1891, he described several congenital anomalies affecting the cerebellum due to hydrocephalus, and this paper listed three different types of abnormalities [1]. Four years later, in 1895, Chiari wrote a second paper (Fig. 2) that described the type IV malformation in two patients [2].
Fig. 1
Hans Chiari’s photograph
Fig. 2
First page from Chiari’s 1895 Über Veränderungen des Kleinhirns, des Pons und der Medulla Oblongata infolge von congenitaler Hydrocephalie des Grosshirns. Denkschr der Kais Akad Wiss Wien math. Naturw. 63:71–116
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