Image-guided lateral suboccipital approach: Part 2 - Impact on complication rates and operation times

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3 SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Gharabaghi, Alireza ^a,b   Rosahl, Steffen K ^c   Feigl, Günther C ^a   Safavi Abbasi, Sam ^a   Mirzayan, Javad M ^a   Heckl, Stefan ^b   Shahidi, Ramin ^d   Tatagiba, Marcos ^b   Samii, Madjid ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Operation time; Sigmoid sinus; Suboccipital approach; Three dimensional volumetric image guidance; Transverse sinus; Venous air embolism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS VENOSUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; VEIN EMBOLISM; VEIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449117618     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000317370.15265.8b     Document Type: Article

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