Microsurgical anatomy of the transcallosal anterior interforniceal approach to the third ventricle

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Siwanuwatn, Rungsak ^a   Deshmukh, Pushpa ^b   Feiz Erfan, Iman ^b   Rekate, Harold L ^b   Zabramski, Joseph M ^b   Spetzler, Robert F ^b   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^c  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anterior interforniceal; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Microsurgical anatomy; Third ventricle; Transcallosal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CADAVER; CLAMP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; HAMARTOMA; HEAD; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; MICROSURGERY; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

CADAVER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISSECTION; FORNIX (BRAIN); HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSURGERY; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16844378995     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000156842.84682.01     Document Type: Article

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