Surgery for optic nerve injury: Should nerve sheath incision supplement osseous decompression?

Skull Base

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 263-271

  Thaker, Alok ^a   Tandon, Dev Ashish ^a   Mahapatra, Ashok K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Endoscopic skull base; Optic nerve decompression; Optic nerve injury; Optic nerve sheath

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCISION; INJURY SEVERITY; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE SHEATH; NERVE SHEATH INCISION; NERVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; ORBIT FRACTURE; OSSEOUS OPTIC CANAL DECOMPRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPHENOID HEMATOMA; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSNASAL ENDOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 67650466385     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: 15320065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1114299     Document Type: Article

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