Celebrating the golden anniversary of anterior skull base surgery: Reflections on the Past 50 Years and Its Historical Evolution

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-72

  Husain, Qasim ^a   Patel, Smruti K ^b   Soni, Resha S ^a   Patel, Amit A ^a   Liu, James K ^a,b   Eloy, Jean Anderson ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior skull base surgery; Casiano; endoscopic sinus surgery; endoscopic skull base surgery; Kassam; Kennedy; Ketcham; Messerklinger; nasal endoscope; open anterior craniofacial resection; Stammberger

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ANTERIOR SKULL BASE SURGERY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CRANIOTOMY; DIPLOPIA; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SKULL BASE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENOPHTHALMOS; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROSURGEON; NOSE POLYP; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK;

CRANIAL FOSSA, ANTERIOR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUSES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84871840730     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23687     Document Type: Review

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