Clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of patients presenting with meningiomas arising predominantly from the floor of the middle fossa

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-86

  Sughrue, Michael E ^a   Cage, Tene ^a   Shangari, Gopal ^a   Parsa, Andrew T ^a   McDermott, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniotomy; Meningioma; Middle fossa; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEUROSURGERY; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77954096048     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000370938.46353.77     Document Type: Article

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