Preoperative assessment of microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm with fusion imaging of 3D MR cisternogram/angiogram

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 785-791

  Onoda, Keisuke ^a   Satoh, Toru ^b   Miyoshi, Yasuyuki ^a   Tokunaga, Koji ^a   Sugiu, Kenji ^a   Date, Isao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ryofukai Satoh Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemifacial spasm; Microvascular decompression; Three dimensional MR angiogram; Three dimensional MR cisternogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33748651262     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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