Surgical management of cavernous malformations involving the cranial nerves

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 352-357

  Deshmukh, Vivek R ^a   Albuquerque, Felipe C ^a   Zabramski, Joseph M ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a   Steinberg, Gary K ^b   Bricolo, Albino ^b   Sekhar, Laligam N ^b   Stimac, Dinko ^b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Barrow Neurological Institute ^*

Author keywords

Cavernous malformation; Cranial nerves; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; MALE; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

EID: 0042090768     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000073531.84342.C2     Document Type: Article

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