Anterior clinoidal meningiomas: Report of a series of 33 patients operated on through the pterional approach

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 188-195

  Puzzilli, Fabrizio ^a,b   Ruggeri, Andrea ^a   Mastronardi, Luciano ^a   Agrillo, Antonino ^a   Ferrante, Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHENOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARACHNOID; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033157185     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/1.3.188     Document Type: Article

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