Microvascular Decompression of Cranial Nerves Using Sheets of a Dural Substitute - Technical Note

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 94-100

  Oiwa, Yoshitsugu ^a   Nakai, Kunio ^a   Takayama, Motoharu ^a   Naka, Daisuke ^a   Itakura, Toru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia; Hemifacial spasm; Polytetrafluoroethylene; Prosthesis; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURAL SUBSTITUTE; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NEURALGIA; HEARING DISORDER; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NEUROVASCULAR SYNDROME; PROSTHESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE;

EID: 1542349192     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.94     Document Type: Article

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