Trigeminocardiac reflex during skull base surgery: Mechanism and management

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 727-732

  Koerbel, A ^a,b,c   Gharabaghi, A ^a,b   Samii, A ^a   Gerganov, V ^a   Von Gosseln H ^a   Tatagiba, M ^b   Samii, M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Universitätsklinik für Neurochirurgie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Hypotension; Skull base; Trigeminal nerve; Trigeminocardiac reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINOCARDIAC REFLEX;

ADULT; AGED; BRADYCARDIA; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDERMAL CYST; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; REFLEX, OCULOCARDIAC; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 20744440926     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-005-0535-1     Document Type: Article

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