The basal temporal approach for mesial temporal surgery: Sparing the meyer loop with navigated diffusion tensor tractography

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Thudium, Marcus O ^a   Campos, Alexandre R ^a,b   Urbach, Horst ^a   Clusmann, Hans ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b Hospital de Santa Maria Avenida ^*  (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AACHEN MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdalohippocampectomy; Epilepsy surgery; Fiber tracking; Meyer loop; Navigation; Optic tract; Subtemporal approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650609683     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f7424b     Document Type: Article

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