The role of radical microsurgical resection in multimodal treatment for skull base meningioma

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1072-1078

  Ichinose, Tsutomu ^a   Goto, Takeo ^a   Ishibashi, Kenichi ^a   Takami, Toshihiro ^a   Ohata, Kenji ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Outcome; Radical resection; Skull base meningioma; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE TUMOR; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149332745     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.2.JNS091118     Document Type: Article

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