Operative approach to mediosuperior cerebellar tumors: Occipital interhemispheric transtentorial approach

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 421-425

  Kurokawa, Yasutaka ^a,b   Uede, Teiji ^a   Hashi, Kazuo ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Cerebellar tentorium; Cerebellar tumor; Operative procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033118393     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(98)00123-2     Document Type: Article

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