Is the distance between mammillary bodies predictive of a thickened third ventricle floor? Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 852-857

  Iaccarino, Corrado ^a,c   Tedeschi, Enrico ^a   Rapanà, Armando ^a   Massarelli, Ilario ^a   Belfiore, Giuseppe ^a   Quarantelli, Mario ^b   Bellotti, Alfredo ^a  

^a S Anna and S Sebastiano Hospital   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Intermammillary distance; Mammillary body; Neuroendoscopic anatomy; Third ventricle floor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT BRAIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 66849111932     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.4.17539     Document Type: Article

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