The extended retrosigmoid approach: An alternative to radical cranial base approaches for posterior fossa lesions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a   Chang, Edward F ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Arteriovenous malformation; Cavernous malformation; Dural arteriovenous fistula; Extended retrosigmoid approach; Microsurgery; Pons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; SKULL BASE; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELEVISION CAMERA;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE;

EID: 33646166737     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000192714.15356.08     Document Type: Review

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