The system of the modified transcochlear approach: A lateral avenue to the central skull base

American Journal of Otology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 88-98

  Sanna, Mario ^a   Mazzoni, Antonio ^b   Saleh, Essam ^c   Taibah, Abdelkader ^a   Mancini, Fernando ^a  

^a GRUPPO OTOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Skull base surgery; Transcochlear approach

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLIVUS; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PETROUS BONE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA; COCHLEA; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PETROUS BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 0031940686     PISSN: 01929763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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