Endoscopic endonasal management of petroclival cerebrospinal fluid leaks: Anatomical study and preliminary clinical experience

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 336-339

  Castelnuovo, P ^a   Dallan, Iacopo ^b   Bignami, M ^a   Pistochini, A ^a   Battaglia, P ^c   Tschabitscher, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Endoscopic; Multilayer plasty; Petroclival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CLIVUS; CRANIOPLASTY; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; ENDONASAL ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SKULL DEFECT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSETHMOIDALPTERYGOIDALSPHENOIDALPETROCLIVAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57749200171     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1085451     Document Type: Article

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