An extensive cranial base meningioma extending bilaterally into Meckel's cave: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 615-618

  Kinjo, Toshihiko ^a   Mukawa, Jiro ^a   Koga, Hisashi ^a   Shingaki, Tatsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Cranial base; Cranial base approach; Malocclusion; Meckel's cave; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SKULL BASE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0031027816     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199703000-00037     Document Type: Article

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