Surgical approaches to the petrous apex: Distances and relations with cranial morphology

Skull Base

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-19

  Meneses, Murilo S ^a,b   Moreira, Ana Lucila ^a   Bordignon, Kelly C ^b   Pedrozo, Ari A ^b   Ramina, Ricardo ^b   Nikoski, Jeziel G ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGIA DE CURITIBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cranial morphology; Petrous apex; Surgical approaches

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PETROUS BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SKULL SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 1542619854     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-821353     Document Type: Article

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