Classification of sphenoid sinus pneumatization: Relevance for endoscopic skull base surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 577-581

  Vaezi, Alec ^a   Cardenas, Eugenio ^a   Pinheiro Neto, Carlos ^b   Paluzzi, Alessandro ^c   Branstetter, Barton F ^a   Gardner, Paul A ^a   Snyderman, Carl H ^a   Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endoscopic endonasal approach; Foramen rotundum; Middle cranial fossa; Pneumatization; Radiological classification; Sphenoid sinus; Vidian canal; Vidian nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; FEMALE; FORAMEN ROTUNDUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SPHENOID SINUS; SPHENOID SINUS PNEUMATIZATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIDIAN CANAL; VIDIAN NERVE; CADAVER; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID SINUSITIS;

CADAVER; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID SINUS; SPHENOID SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923359688     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24989     Document Type: Article

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