Microsurgical anatomy and approaches to the cavernous sinus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Yasuda, Alexandre ^a   Campero, Alvaro ^a   Martins, Carolina ^a   Rhoton Jr , Albert L ^a   De Oliveira, Evandro ^b   Ribas, Guilherme C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Cranial nerves; Craniotomy; Internal carotid artery; Surgical approaches

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAVERNOUS SINUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 57049174532     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000144208.42171.02     Document Type: Article

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