Surgical management of petroclival chordomas: Report of eight cases

Skull Base

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-92

  Takami, Toshihiro ^a   Ohata, Kenji ^a   Goto, Takeo ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Naohiro ^a   Nishio, Akimasa ^a   Hara, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Petrous bone; Skull base; Transpetrosal approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGEON;

EID: 34248654851     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: 15320065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-934109     Document Type: Article

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