The supratonsillar approach to the inferior cerebellar peduncle: Anatomy, surgical technique, and clinical application to cavernous malformations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 4 SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Lawton, Michael T ^a   Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^b   Jun, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biventral lobule; Cerebellar tonsil; Inferior cerebellar peduncle; Secondary fissure; Supratonsillar approach; Tonsillobiventral fissure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN VEIN; CADAVER; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PALATINE TONSIL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TONSIL;

EID: 33750073180     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000232767.16809.68     Document Type: Article

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