Surgical treatment of intracranial epidermoid tumors

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 275-280

  Akar, Ziya ^a   Tanriover, Necmettin ^a,b   Tuzgen, Saffet ^a   Kafadar, Ali M ^a   Kuday, Cengiz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aseptic meningitis; Epidermoid tumor; Microneurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 0038784704     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.275     Document Type: Article

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