Comparison of the far lateral and extreme lateral variants of the atlanto-occipital transarticular approach to anterior extradural lesions of the craniovertebral junction

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 662-675

  Kawashima, Masatou ^a   Tanriover, Necmettin ^a   Rhoton Jr , Albert L ^a   Ulm, Arthur J ^a   Matsushima, Toshio ^b   George, Bernard ^c   Heth, Jason A ^c   Al Mefty, Ossama ^c   Day, John D ^c   Lüdemann, Wolf ^c   Samii, Madjid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Building 59 ^*

Author keywords

Atlanto occipital transarticular approach; Craniovertebral junction; Extradural lesion; Extreme lateral; Far lateral; Microsurgical anatomy

Indexed keywords

ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CADAVER; CLIVUS; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MICROSURGERY; NASOPHARYNX; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0041353792     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000080070.16099.BB     Document Type: Article

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