Endoscopic anatomy of the palatovaginal canal (palatosphenoidal canal): A landmark for dissection of the vidian nerve during endonasal transpterygoid approaches

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-12

  Pinheiro Neto, Carlos D ^b,c   Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^a   Rivera Serrano, Carlos M ^b   Paluzzi, Alessandro ^a   Snyderman, Carl H ^a,b   Gardner, Paul A ^a   Sennes, Luiz U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

endoscopy; palatovaginal canal; skull base; Transpterygoid approaches; vidian nerve

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDONASAL TRANSPTERYGOID APPROACH; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; PALATE; PALATOVAGINA CANAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHENOID; VIDIAN NERVE;

CADAVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PALATE, HARD; SPHENOID BONE;

EID: 84355161525     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21808     Document Type: Article

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