Endoscopic endonasal transclival approach and retrosigmoid approach to the clival and petroclival regions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 6 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  De Notaris, Matteo ^a   Cavallo, Luigi Maria ^a   Prats Galino, Alberto ^b   Esposito, Isabella ^a   Benet, Arnau ^b   Poblete, José ^b   Valente, Vinicio ^c   Gonzalez, Joan Berenguer ^b   Ferrer, Enrique ^b   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Ospedale Civile dell'Annunziata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopic cranial base surgery; Endoscopic endonasal surgery; Endoscopic retrosigmoid approach; Endoscopic skull base surgery; Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery; Petroclival region

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; NOSE CAVITY; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ABDUCENS NERVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PETROUS BONE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 74549174714     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000347001.62158.57     Document Type: Article

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