Microsurgical management of pineal region lesions: personal experience with 119 patients

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 576-583

  Hernesniemi, Juha ^a   Romani, Rossana ^a   Albayrak, Baki S ^b   Lehto, Hanna ^a   Dashti, Reza ^c   Ramsey III, Christian ^d   Karatas, Ayse ^e   Cardia, Andrea ^f   Navratil, Ondrej ^a   Piippo, Anna ^a   Fujiki, Minoru ^a   Toninelli, Stefano ^g   Niemelä, Mika ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e Cardiology Department   (Turkey)

^f IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Follow up; Hydrocephalus; Infratentorial supracerebellar approach; Occipital interhemispheric approach; Pineal region lesions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHILD; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGITIS; MICROSURGERY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 56849087095     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

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