The quiet revolution: Retractorless surgery for complex vascular and skull base lesions - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-300

  Spetzler, Robert F ^a   Sanai, Nader ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Microinstruments; Retractor; Retractor induced edema; Retractorless surgery; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; CRANIOTOMY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PONS ANGLE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETRACTOR; RETRACTORLESS SURGERY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE INJURY; VASCULAR LESION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SUCTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856806429     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.8.JNS101896     Document Type: Article

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