Extensive lower clivus chordomas. Removal using the unilateral transmandibular approach;Chordomes extensifs du clivus inférieur. Exérèse par voie transmandibulaire unilatérale

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 63-71

  Fournier, H D ^a   Hue, A S ^a   Laccourreye, L ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Clival chordoma; Skull base; Transfacial approach to skull base; Transmandibular approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHORDOMA; CLIVUS; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; PROTON THERAPY; SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; TONGUE EDEMA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSTEOTOMY; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42049084634     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuchi.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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