Cavernous sinus meningiomas: Retrospective analysis and proposal of atreatment algorithm

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1090-1099

  Pichierri, Angelo ^a,d   Santoro, Antonio ^a   Raco, Antonino ^a   Paolini, Sergio ^b   Cantore, Giampaolo ^c   Delfini, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Follow up studies; Meningioma; Neurosurgery; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049114602     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000346023.52541.0A     Document Type: Article

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