Giant cavernous sinus teratoma: A clinical example of a rare entity: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1367-1371

  Tobias, Samuel ^a   Valarezo, Javier ^a   Meir, Karen ^a   Umansky, Felix ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Benign tumors; Cavernous sinus; Pathology; Surgery; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035016518     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-200106000-00041     Document Type: Article

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