Transoral approach to the craniovertebral junction

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 65, Issue 4 B, 2007, Pages 1166-1171

  Landeiro, José Alberto ^a,b,c   Boechat, Sávio ^a   Christoph, Daniel De Holanda ^a   Gonçalves, Mariângela Barbi ^a   De Castro, Igor ^a   Lapenta, Mario Alberto ^a   Ribeiro, Carlos Henrique ^a  

^a Departamento de Radiologia e Diagnostico Por Imagem   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basilar invagination; Odontoidectomy; Transoral approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR INVAGINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION; DENS AXIS RESECTION; FISTULA; HUMAN; INVAGINATION; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORONASAL FISTULA; PNEUMONIA; SKULL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA;

EID: 41549092189     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000700014     Document Type: Article

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