Surgical simulation of cerebral revascularization via skull base approaches in the posterior circulation using three-dimensional skull model with artificial brain and blood vessels

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-96

  Mori, Kentaro ^a   Yamamoto, Takuji ^a   Nakao, Yasuaki ^a   Esaki, Takanori ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Far lateral approach; Occipital artery posterior inferior cerebellar artery anastomosis; Presigmoid transpetrosal approach; Superficial temporal artery superior cerebellar artery anastomosis; Training model

Indexed keywords

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; FAR LATERAL APPROACH; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRESIGMOID TRANSPETROSAL APPROACH; SIMULATION; SKULL; SKULL BASE; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SKULL; SKULL BASE; TEACHING;

EID: 79952149681     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.51.93     Document Type: Article

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