Surgical management of brain-stem cavernomas

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-93

  Pechstein, Ulrich ^a   Zentner, Josef ^a   Van Roost, Dirk ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stem cavernoma; Microsurgery; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CRANIOTOMY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030875030     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01138189     Document Type: Article

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