Combined transconjunctival/intranasal endoscopic approach to the optic canal in traumatic optic neuropathy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-315

  Kuppersmith, Ronald B ^a   Alford, Eugene L ^a   Patrinely, James R ^a,b   Lee, Andrew G ^a   Parke, Robert B ^a   Holds, John B ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NOSE; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NOSE; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS; TIME FACTORS; TURBINATES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0030901767     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199703000-00006     Document Type: Article

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