Endoscopic endonasal minimal access approach to the clivus: Case series and technical nuances

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Fraser, Justin F ^a   Nyquist, Gurston G ^a   Moore, Nicholas ^a   Anand, Vijay K ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clivus; CSF leak; Endonasal; Endoscopy; Minimally invasive; Skull base; Transnasal; WORDS: Chordoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHORDOMA; CLIVUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENDONASAL ENDOSCOPIC TRANSCLIVAL APPROACH; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SKULL BASE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTEROGENOUS CYST; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASKET SEAL CLOSURE; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; INFARCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NASOSEPTAL FLAP; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SUTURE; TISSUE FLAP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650678205     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000383130.80179.41     Document Type: Article

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