Effect of early optic canal unroofing on the outcome of visual functions in surgery for meningiomas of the tuberculum sellae and planum sphenoidale

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 839-844

  Nozaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Kikuta, Ken Ichiro ^a   Takagi, Yasushi ^a   Mineharu, Youhei ^a   Takahashi, Jun A ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optic canal unroofing; Surgical resection; Tuberculum sellae meningioma; Visual symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; OPTIC CANAL UNROOFING; OPTIC NERVE; PLANUM SPHENOIDALE MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELLA TURCICA MENINGIOMA; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 48949119529     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000318169.75095.cb     Document Type: Article

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