A hypothesis of epiarachnoidal growth of vestibular schwannoma at the cerebello-pontine angle: Surgical importance

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 253-258

  Ohata, Kenji ^a   Tsuyuguchi, N ^a   Morino, M ^a   Takami, T ^a   Goto, T ^a   Hakuba, A ^a   Hara, M ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arachnoid membrane; Cerebello pontine angle; Epiarachnoidal growth; Rearrangement; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEURILEMOMA; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 0036820231     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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