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Skull
Base Surgery for Benign Skull Base Tumors
Ketan R. Bulsara, Ossama Al-Mefty
Department
of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Little Rock,
AR, USA [K.R.B.]. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas
Medical Science, 4301 West Markham Street, Slot #507, Little Rock,
Arkansas 72205, USA; Tel.: +1-501-686-8757; E-mail: aekeeLand@uams.edu
[O.A.-M.].
The
use of skull base techniques in the treatment of benign skull base
tumors has allowed access to areas of the brain once considered inaccessible.
The most common benign skull base tumors encountered in neurosurgical
practice are benign meningiomas, schwannomas, and glomus jugulare
tumors.
Gross total resection of these lesions gives patients the best
possible chance of a cure.
In this paper, we review the rationale for the use of skull base
surgery techniques for benign skull base tumors.
Keywords:
glomus jugulare tumor, jugular fossa, meningioma, microsurgery,
petroclival meningioma, schwannoma, skull base
Copyright
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2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
All rights reserved
Source: http://ipsapp007.kluweronline.com/IPS/content/ext/x/J/5042/I/124/A/14/abstract.htm
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