Anatomical variations of the ten triangles around the cavernous sinus

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-14

  Watanabe, A ^a,c   Nagaseki, Y ^b   Ohkubo, S ^a   Ohhashi, Y ^a   Horikoshi, T ^a   Nishigaya, K ^a   Nukui, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Skull base approach; Skull base surgery; Triangle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL BASE;

EID: 0037214524     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.10072     Document Type: Article

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