Abducens schwannoma inside the cavernous sinus proper: Case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 559-563

  Nakagawa, Toru ^a   Uchida, Koichi ^a   Ozveren, Mehmet Faik ^b   Kawase, Takeshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abducens schwannoma; functional preservation; intracavernous sinus

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ABDUCENS SCHWANNOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAXILLARY NERVE; NEURILEMOMA; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

ABDUCENS NERVE; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEURILEMMOMA;

EID: 2542570210     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00580-9     Document Type: Article

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