Image-guided, endoscopic-assisted drilling and exposure of the whole length of the internal auditory canal and its fundus with preservation of the integrity of the labyrinth using a retrosigmoid approach: A laboratory investigation

Neurosurgery

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

  Pillai, Promod ^a   Sammet, Steffen ^a   Ammirati, Mario ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscope; Image guidance; Internal auditory canal; Labyrinth; Temporal bone; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EAR INJURY; HUMAN; INNER EAR; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

CADAVER; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL SINUSES; DEAFNESS; EAR, INNER; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PETROUS BONE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 74549181081     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000343521.88537.16     Document Type: Article

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