A 3-dimensional computed tomographic procedure for planning retrosigmoid craniotomy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages

  Hamasaki, Tadashi ^a   Morioka, Motohiro ^a   Nakamura, Hideo ^a   Yano, Shigetoshi ^a   Hirai, Toshinori ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Retrosigmoid craniotomy; Suboccipital craniotomy; Three dimensional computed tomographic bone image; Transverse sigmoid sinus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MASTOID; MENINGIOMA; MORPHOMETRICS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSIGMOID CRANIOTOMY; SIGMOID SINUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSVERSE SINUS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VESTIBULAR NERVE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRANIAL SINUS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TEMPORAL BONE; ACCURACY; ANATOMY; ASTERION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INION; INJURY; RELIABILITY; SKULL; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; ZYGOMA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651177818     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000336763.90656.2B     Document Type: Article

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