Giant dumbbell-shaped middle cranial fossa trigeminal schwannoma with extension to the infratemporal and posterior fossae

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 149, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 959-963

  Kouyialis, A T ^a,b   Stranjalis, G ^a   Papadogiorgakis, N ^a   Papavlassopoulos, F ^a   Ziaka, D S ^a   Petsinis, V ^a   Sakas, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infratemporal fossa; Middle cranial fossa; Schwannoma; Trigeminal neurinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOTOMY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL BASE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 34548235494     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-007-1173-6     Document Type: Article

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