Classification and management of skull base fractures

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 42-62

  Taşdemiroǧlu, Erol ^a   Patchell, Roy A ^a  

^a Deniz Apartment 74/7   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carotid cavernous fistula; Cerebrospinal fluid fistula; Growing skull fracture; Posterior fossa hematoma; Skull base fracture; Traumatic intracranial aneurysm

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL BASE FRACTURE;

EID: 0036168490     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-200203000-00004     Document Type: Review

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