Attenuation of vascularity by preoperative radiosurgery facilitates total removal of a hypervascular hemangioblastoma at the cerebello-pontine angle: Case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 238-243

  Kamitani, Hideki ^a,c   Hirano, Nobuo ^a   Takigawa, Haruo ^a   Yokota, Masayuki ^a   Miyata, Hajime ^b   Ohama, Eisaku ^b   Watanabe, Takashi ^b  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

coagulation necrosis; Hemangioblastoma; hypervascularity; radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FEMALE; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 4344674424     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.09.030     Document Type: Article

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