Petroclival meningiomas: Multimodality treatment and outcomes at long-term follow-up

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 965-979

  Natarajan, Sabareesh K ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^a,d   Schessel, David ^b   Morita, Akio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Long term follow up; Outcome; Petroclival meningioma; Radiotherapy; Skull base; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; PETROCLIVAL MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249820761     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255472.52882.D6     Document Type: Article

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