Microsurgical resection of colloid cysts using a stereotactic transventricular approach

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 485-492

  Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloid cyst; microsurgery; stereotactic; third ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLOID CYST; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030297025     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00201-7     Document Type: Article

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