Endoscopic endonasal skull base reconstruction using a nasal septal flap: Surgical results and comparison with previous reconstructions

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-241

  Horiguchi, Kentaro ^a   Murai, Hisayuki ^a   Hasegawa, Yuzo ^a   Hanazawa, Toyoyuki ^a   Yamakami, Iwao ^a   Saeki, Naokatsu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endonasal reconstruction; Endoscope; External lumber drain; Nasal septal flap; Ventral skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPLASTY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOREHEAD FLAP; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SKULL MALFORMATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FASCIA LATA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL SEPTUM; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77949654216     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-010-0247-8     Document Type: Article

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