Meckel's cave tumors: Relation to the meninges and minimally invasive approaches for surgery: Anatomic and clinical studies

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Muto, Jun ^a   Kawase, Takeshi ^a   Yoshida, Kazunari ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior petrosal approach; Dolenc's approach; Meckel's cave; Meningiomas; Schwannomas

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR PETROSAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE; DOLENC SURGERY; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FACIAL HYPESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MECKEL CAVE TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; MENINX; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEURILEMOMA; NEURINOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERATOMA; TRIGEMINUS NEURINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650679663     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000382967.84940.52     Document Type: Article

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