Quantitative analysis of the working area and angle of attack for the retrosigmoid, combined petrosal, and transcochlear approaches to the petroclival region

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 137-142

  Siwanuwatn, Rungsak ^a,b   Deshmukh, Pushpa ^a   Figueiredo, Eberval Gadelha ^a   Crawford, Neil R ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a   Preul, Mark C ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Petroclival region; Petrosal approach; Quantitative anatomical study; Retrosigmoid approach; Transcochlear approach

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CEREBELLUM; CLIVUS; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEVICE; DISSECTION; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROANATOMY; PETROUS BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL BASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BONE;

BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CADAVER; COCHLEA; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY;

EID: 33644527583     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.1.137     Document Type: Article

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