Microsurgical and endoscopic anatomy of the supratentorial arachnoidal membranes and cisterns

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 644-664

  Inoue, Kohei ^a   Seker, Askin ^a   Osawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Alencastro, Luis Felipe ^a   Matsushima, Toshio ^b   Rhoton Jr , Albert L ^a  

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

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral arteries; Cerebrospinal fluid; Cranial base; Meninges; Microsurgical anatomy; Skull base; Subarachnoid space; Supratentorial cisterns

Indexed keywords

ARACHNOID; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROANATOMY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE;

ARACHNOID; BRAIN; CADAVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CISTERNA MAGNA; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 70349748837     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000351774.81674.32     Document Type: Article

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