Meningiomas of the basal posterior fossa. Surgical experience in 80 cases

Neurocirugia

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-542

  Lobato, Ramiro Diez ^a   Gonzalez P ^a   Alday, R ^a   Ramos, A ^a   Lagares, A ^a   Alen, J F ^a   Palomino, J C ^a   Miranda, P ^a   Perez Nunez A ^a   Arrese, I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clivus; Cranial nerves; Meningioma; Microsurgery; Petrous bone; Posterior fossa; Radiosurgery; Skull base tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL POSTERIOR FOSSA MENINGIOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLIVUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOTEMPORAL PTERIONAL APPROACH; GAIT DISORDER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LATERAL SUBOCCIPITAL RETROSIGMOID APPROACH; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PETROUS BONE; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENT CANCER; REOPERATION; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SUBTEMPORAL TRANSTENTORIAL APPROACH; SUPRAINFRATENTORIAL PRESIGMOID APPROACH; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 19944425821     PISSN: 11301473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1130-1473(04)70439-X     Document Type: Article

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