The endoscopic, endonasal, transmaxillary transpterygoid approach to the pterygopalatine fossa, infratemporal fossa, petrous apex, and the Meckel cave

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 967-974

  Hofstetter, Christoph P ^a   Singh, Ameet ^a   Anand, Vijay K ^a   Kacker, Ashutosh ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalocele; Endoscopy; Infratemporal fossa; Minimally invasive approach; Petrous apex; Pterygopalatine fossa; Skull base; Transpterygoid approach

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; HUMAN; INFRATEMPORAL FOSSA; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MECKEL CAVE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PETROUS APEX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSA; SINUSITIS; SKULL; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78149338958     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.10.JNS09157     Document Type: Article

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