Microsurgical anatomic features of the olfactory nerve: Relevance to olfaction preservation in the pterional approach

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Cardali, Salvatore ^a   Romano, Alberto ^a   Angileri, Filippo Flavio ^a   Conti, Alfredo ^a   La Torre, Domenico ^a   De Divitiis, Oreste ^a   D'Avella, Domenico ^a   Tschabitscher, Manfred ^b   Tomasello, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Microsurgical anatomy; Olfactory nerve; Pterional approach

Indexed keywords

ARACHNOID; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CRANIOTOMY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; SMELLING;

CADAVER; CRANIOTOMY; FRONTAL LOBE; MICRODISSECTION; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 21744458710     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000144844.72403.7B     Document Type: Article

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