Acquisition of surgical skills for endonasal skull base surgery: A training program

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 699-705

  Snyderman, Carl ^a,b   Kassam, Amin ^a   Carrau, Ricardo ^a   Mintz, Arlan ^a   Gardner, Paul ^a   Prevedello, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Endonasal; Endoneurosurgery; Endoscopic; Skull base; Training

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAINING;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LEARNING; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARANASAL SINUSES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID BONE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34147189518     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/mlg.0b013e318031c817     Document Type: Review

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