Eyebrow incision with supraorbital trephination for endoscopic corpus callosotomy: A feasibility study

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 188-191

  Tubbs, Richard Shane ^a,b   Smyth, Matthew D ^b   Salter, George ^a   Doughty, Kyle ^c   Blount, Jeffrey P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy; Eyebrow incision; Seizure surgery; Supraorbital craniotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EYEBROW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ENDOSCOPES; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EYEBROWS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREPHINING;

EID: 1842477482     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0894-y     Document Type: Article

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