Expanded endoscopic endonasal approach for treatment of clival chordomas: Early results in 12 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 299-307

  Dehdashti, Amir R ^a   Karabatsou, Konstantina ^a   Ganna, Ahmed ^a   Witterick, Ian ^a   Gentili, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clival chordoma; Endonasal; Endoscopy; Expanded; Minimally invasive; Technique; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIVUS; CRANIOTOMY; DIPLOPIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64849094116     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000316414.20247.32     Document Type: Article

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