Cerebellopontine angle epidermoids presenting with cranial nerve hyperactive dysfunction: Pathogenesis and long-term surgical results in 30 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 276-285

  Kobata, Hitoshi ^a,b   Kondo, Akinori ^a   Iwasaki, Koichi ^a  

^a Kitano Medical Research Institute and Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellopontine angle; Epidermoid; Hemifacial spasm; Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PATHOGENESIS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDERMOID CYST; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 0036482051     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200202000-00008     Document Type: Review

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