Cranial base approaches to inaccessible intracranial tumors

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 726-731

  Monfared, Ashkan ^a   Agrawal, Sumit ^a   Jackler, Robert K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic surgery; Microsurgery; Skull base tumors; Stereotactic radiation; Subtotal resection

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SKULL BASE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 36049047290     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e3282f1a043     Document Type: Review

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