Retrosigmoid Approach: Indications, Techniques, and Results

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 375-397

  Elhammady, Mohamed Samy ^a   Telischi, Fred F ^a   Morcos, Jacques J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Retrosigmoid; Surgical technique; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AGE; ANESTHESIA; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN ARACHNOID; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPOSITE SKIN GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DECISION MAKING; DISSECTION; DURA MATER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; HEARING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; LIQUORRHEA; MASTOID; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESERVATION; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSIGMOID APPROACH; REVIEW; SIGMOID SINUS; SKIN INCISION; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL SPONGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE ADHESION; TRANSVERSE SINUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE INJURY; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE INJURY; WOUND IRRIGATION;

CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OCCIPITAL BONE; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859342828     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2012.02.001     Document Type: Review

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