The front door to Meckel's cave: An anteromedial corridor via expanded endoscopic endonasal approach-technical considerations and clinical series

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Kassam, Amin B ^a   Prevedello, Daniel M ^a   Carrau, Ricardo L ^a,c   Snyderman, Carl H ^a   Gardner, Paul ^a   Osawa, Shigeyuki ^b   Seker, Askin ^b   Rhoton Jr , Albert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Endonasal; Endoscopic; Expanded approaches; Meckel's cave; Transpetrous; Transpterygoid; Tumor resection

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROANATOMY; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PARESTHESIA; PETROUS BONE; PONS ANGLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL SEPTUM; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849089275     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000335162.36862.54     Document Type: Article

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