Microsurgical management of hypoglossal schwannomas over 3 decades: A modified grading scale to guide surgical approach

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 121-140

  Nonaka, Yoichi ^a   Grossi, Peter M ^a   Bulsara, Ketan R ^b   Taniguchi, Raymond M ^c   Friedman, Allan H ^a   Fukushima, Takanori ^a,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Carolina Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoglossal canal; Hypoglossal schwannoma; Jugular tubercle; Occipital condyle; Sural nerve; Transcondylar approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DUMBBELL SHAPED TUMOR; DYSPHAGIA; EXTRACRANIAL TUMOR; EXTREME LATERAL INFRAJUGULAR TRANSCONDYLAR TRANSTUBERCULAR EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; HYPOGLOSSAL SCHWANNOMA; INTRADURAL TUMOR; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURILEMOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE INTERPOSITION GRAFTING; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80955137408     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822a547b     Document Type: Article

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