Tailor-made orbitocranioplasty for a sphenorbital encephalocele presenting as pulsatile exophthalmos: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 126-130

  Katano, Hiroyuki ^a   Aihara, Noritaka ^a   Takeuchi, Yotaro ^a   Nozaki, Miho ^a   Yamada, Kazuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Hydroxyapatite; Pediatric neurosurgery; Skull model; Sphenorbital encephalocele; Three dimensional computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CERAMICS; CHILD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORBIT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSTHESIS; SPHENOID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BONE SUBSTITUTES; CERAMICS; CHILD; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURAPATITE; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ORBIT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347207523     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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