The transcrusal approach: A 10-year experience at one Canadian center

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1017-1022

  Brandt, Michael G ^a   Poirier, Justin ^a   Hughes, Brian ^a   Lownie, Stephen P ^a   Parnes, Lorne S ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Giant aneurysm; Partial labyrinthectomy; Petroclival region; Petrous apex; Transcrusal; Transpetrosal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANADA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; EPIDERMOID CYST; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PONTINE CARVERNOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERATOMA; TRANSCRUSAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; CANADA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77951688590     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000368102.22612.47     Document Type: Article

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