Microsurgical anatomy of the temporal stem: Clinical relevance and correlations with diffusion tensor imaging fiber tracking - Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1033-1038

  Peltier, Johann ^a,c   Verclytte, Sébastien ^b   Delmaire, Christine ^b   Pruvo, Jean Pierre ^b   Godefroy, Olivier ^c   Le Gars, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Amiens University Medical Center and Jules Verne University of Picardy   (France)

Author keywords

Anterior commissure; Corpus callosum; Fiber dissection technique; Optic radiation; Temporal stem; Uncinate fasciculus; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSURGERY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77952044836     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.6.JNS08132     Document Type: Article

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