Tentorial meningiomas: Clinical results in 81 patients treated microsurgically

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-116

  Bassiouni, Hischam ^a,b   Hunold, Anja ^a   Asgari, Siamak ^a   Stolke, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microsurgery; Radiation therapy; Surgical approach; Tentorial meningioma; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATAXIA; BRAIN SINUS; BRAIN SINUS PATENCY; BRAIN VEIN; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPSON GRADING SYSTEM; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 3042743630     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000126886.48372.49     Document Type: Review

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