Neuro-ophthalmologic manifestations of benign anterior skull base lesions

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 103-114

  Hornyak, Mark ^a   Digre, Kathleen ^a   Couldwell, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign; Skull base; Surgery; Tumor; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLEEDING; BLURRED VISION; BONE LESION; BONE TUMOR; CACHEXIA; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLIVUS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIPLOPIA; DISSECTION; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; DURA MATER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; ETHMOID SINUS; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HAND MOVEMENT; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION; INVASIVE FUNGAL SINUSITIS; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MENINGIOMA; MENTAL HEALTH; NASAL BIOPSY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OSSIFYING FIBROMA; OSTEOTOMY; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL VISION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SINUS HEADACHE; SINUSITIS; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOID; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL LOBE; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROMA, OSSIFYING; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA OF BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUSITIS; SKULL BASE; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149159891     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2009.07.2036     Document Type: Review

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