Supracerebellar infratentorial approach to cavernous malformations of the brainstem: Surgical variants and clinical experience with 45 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 389-399

  De Oliveira, Jean G ^a   Lekovic, Gregory P ^a   Safavi Abbasi, Sam ^a   Reis, Cassius V ^a   Hanel, Ricardo A ^a   Porter, Randall W ^a   Preul, Mark C ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Cavernous malformations; Developmental venous anomaly; Supracerebellar infratentorial approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MESENCEPHALIC JUNCTION LESION; MIDBRAIN LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PONS LESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGMOID SINUS; SUPRACEREBELLAR INFRATENTORIAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS LESION; TRANSVERSE SINUS; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749130307     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000363702.67016.5D     Document Type: Review

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