Microsurgical and endoscopic anatomy of the vidian canal

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages

  Osawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Rhoton Jr , Albert L ^a,d   Seker, Askin ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^b   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^b   Kassam, Amin B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial nerves; Maxillary sinus; Microsurgical anatomy; Nasal cavity; Petrous carotid; Sphenoid bone; Sphenoid sinus; Vidian artery; Vidian canal; Vidian nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID SINUS NERVE; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIAL NERVE; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; MAGNIFYING ENDOSCOPY; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MAXILLARY ARTERY; MICROSURGERY; NOSE CAVITY; PALATINE TONSIL; PETROUS BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSA; SKULL; SPHENOID; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VIDIAN NERVE; ARTERY; ENDOSCOPIC ANATOMY; HUMAN TISSUE; MAXILLA; NERVE; PETROSAL NERVE; VIDIAN ARTERY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DISSECTION; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEURALGIA; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPY; FACIAL NERVE; GENICULATE GANGLION; HUMANS; MAXILLA; MICROSURGERY; NEURALGIA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 67651163819     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000338945.54863.D9     Document Type: Article

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