Anatomical aspects in the transsphenoidal-transethmoidal approach to the optic canal: An anatomic-cadaveric study

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Yilmazlar, Selcuk ^a   Saraydaroglu, Ozlem ^a   Korfali, Ender ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Internal carotid artery; Optic canal; Optic nerve; Transsphenoidal transethmoidal approach

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAROTID PROTUBERANCE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LATERAL OPTICOCAROTID RECESS; MALE; MEDIAL OPTICOCAROTID RECESS; MICROSCOPY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; OPTIC CANAL; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC PROTUBERANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL TRANSETHMOIDAL APPROACH; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEPHALOMETRY; COLLAGEN; DURA MATER; ETHMOID BONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 84865776931     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: 18784119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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