Evaluation of platybasia in patients with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-81

  Kanpolat, Yucel ^a   Tatli, Mehmet ^b   Ugur, Hasan Caglar ^a   Kahilogullari, Gokmen ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Platybasia; Skull base deformity; Trigeminal neuralgia; X ray

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR IMPRESSION; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATHOGENESIS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; PLATYBASIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; TURKEY;

EID: 33846002801     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.08.021     Document Type: Article

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