Shortening the learning curve in endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery: A reproducible polymer tumor model for the trans-sphenoidal trans-tubercular approach to retro-infundibular tumors

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1635-1641

  Berhouma, Moncef ^a,b,c   Baidya, Nishanta B ^a   Ismaïl, Abdelhay A ^a   Zhang, Jun ^d   Ammirati, Mario ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic endonasal surgery; Laboratory training; Neurosurgical education; Retro infundibular tumor; Skull base; Tumor model

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SKULL BASE SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LABORATORY; LEARNING CURVE; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; RESIDENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR MODEL;

ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; LABORATORY TRAINING; NEUROSURGICAL EDUCATION; RETRO-INFUNDIBULAR TUMOR; SKULL BASE; TUMOR MODEL;

CADAVER; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING CURVE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POLYMERS; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887618898     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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