Surgical experience with skull base approaches for foramen magnum meningioma

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 472-480

  Marin Sanabria, Elio Arnaldo ^a   Ehara, Kazumasa ^a   Tamaki, Norihiko ^a   Al Mefty, Ossama ^b   Heth, Jason ^b   Dolenc, Vinko V ^c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c University Hospital Center   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Foramen magnum meningioma; Foramen magnum syndrome; Suboccipital approach; Transcondylar approach; Transoral approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUADRIPLEGIA; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036859717     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.472     Document Type: Article

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