Posterior condylar canals and posterior condylar emissary veins - A microsurgical and CT anatomical study

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-126

  Matsushima, Ken ^a,b   Kawashima, Masatou ^a   Matsushima, Toshio ^a   Hiraishi, Tetsuya ^c   Noguchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Kuraoka, Akio ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniocervical junction; Lateral foramen magnum; Microsurgical anatomy; Posterior condylar canal; Posterior condylar emissary vein; Surgical approaches

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; GEOMETRY; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL CANAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; JUGULAR BULB; JUGULAR FORAMEN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OCCIPITAL SINUS; POSTERIOR CONDYLAR CANAL; POSTERIOR CONDYLAR EMISSARY VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID SINUS; SKULL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; CADAVER; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBRAL VEINS; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84891881321     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0493-7     Document Type: Article

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