Management of intracranial meningiomas secondarily involving the infratemporal fossa: Radiographic characteristics, pattern of tumor invasion, and surgical implications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 231-238

  Pieper, Daniel R ^a   Al Mefty, Ossama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumor invasion; Cranial base surgery; Infratemporal fossa; Meningioma; Middle fossa; Skull base surgery; Zygomatic approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKULL BASE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032818526     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199908000-00005     Document Type: Article

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