Surgical management of cranial base metastases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 802-809

  Chamoun, Roukoz B ^a   Suki, Dima ^a   Demonte, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Metastases; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE METASTASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858750164     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318236a700     Document Type: Article

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