Early experience with 3-T magnetic resonance tractography in the surgery of cerebral arteriovenous malformations in and around the visual pathway

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 331-337

  Kikuta, Ken Ichiro ^a   Takagi, Yasushi ^a   Nozaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a   Okada, Tsutomu ^a   Miki, Yukio ^a   Fushimi, Yasutaka ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging; Arteriovenous malformation; Diffusion tensor tractography; Optic radiation; Surgical indication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC TRACT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 32244434293     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000195017.82776.90     Document Type: Article

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