The central myelin-peripheral myelin transitional zone of the nervus intermedius and its implications for microsurgery in the cerebellopontine angle

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 882-888

  Alfieri, Alex ^a   Fleischhammer, Julius ^a   Strauss, Christian ^a   Peschke, Elmar ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

central myelin peripheral myelin transitional zone; cranial nerve neuralgia; glial Schwann junction; nervus intermedius; Obersteiner Redlich zone

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CENTRAL MYELIN PERIPHERAL MYELIN TRANSITIONAL ZONE; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSURGERY; NEURALGIA; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VEIN DIAMETER;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADAVER; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NEURALGIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84865797405     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.22025     Document Type: Article

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