Supracerebellar transtentorial approach - Resection of the tentorium instead of an opening - To provide broad exposure of the mediobasal temporal lobe: Anatomical aspects and surgical applications. Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 764-772

  De Oliveira, Jean G ^a,b   Párraga, Richard Gonzalo ^a   Chaddad Neto, Feres ^a,e   Ribas, Guilherme Carvalhal ^a,c,d   De Oliveira, Evandro P L ^a,e  

^a HOSPITAL BENEFICÊNCIA PORTUGUESA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Nove de Julho University   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Aneurysm; Arteriovenous malformation; Brain tumor surgery; Cavernous malformation; Diagnostic and operative techniques; Supracerebellar transtentorial approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIOBASAL TEMPORAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPRACEREBELLAR TRANSTENTORIAL RESECTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859339575     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.12.JNS111256     Document Type: Article

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