Surgical procedure "Simplified Retrosigmoid Approach" for C-P angle lesions

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 168-171

  Yamashima, Tetsumori ^a,b   Lee, Joung H ^a   Tobias, Samuel ^a   Kim, Chang Hyun ^a   Chang, Jong Hee ^a   Kwon, Jeong Taik ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asterion; Cerebello pontine angle; Simplified retrosigmoid approach; Subasterional approach; Transvers sigmoid junction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTERION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN VEIN; CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PONS ANGLE; PONS ANGLE LESION; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLIFIED RETROSIGMOID APPROACH; SKULL; SKULL DEFECT; SUBASTERIONAL APPROACH; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE SIGMOID SINUS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NERVE RESECTION;

EID: 1342346720     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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