Extracranial meningioma in the vicinity of the temporal bone: a difficult preoperative diagnosis

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-105

  Agrawal, Amit ^a   Rao, K S ^b   Makannavar, Jagadeesh H ^a   Shetty, Lathika ^a   Patel, Nehal ^c  

^a NITTE DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Craniofacial Surgery   (India)

^c A B SHETTY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

computerized tomography; CT; Extracranial meningioma; Temporal bone tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRACRANIAL MENINGIOMA; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENINGIOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TUMOR BIOPSY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 33845925070     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.02.043     Document Type: Article

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