Middle fossa transpetrosal approach for petroclival and brainstem tumors

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1408-1412

  Slater, Patrick W ^a   Welling, D Bradley ^a   Goodman, Joseph H ^a   Miner, Michael E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; HUMAN; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PETROUS BONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0344074447     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199809000-00030     Document Type: Article

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