Diffusion tensor tractography in the preoperative precise identification of the course of facial nerve in a meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle – Technical implications
Background: Facial paralysis remains as one of the major morbidities of surgery of cerebellopontine angle tumors. The preoperative standard Magnetic Resonance Image does not identify, with precision, the path of the facial nerve. Case description: The authors describe a case of a 56 years-old female...
Main Authors: | Gonçalo Neto d'Almeida, Luís Sousa Marques, Pedro Escada, Toshiaki Taoka, Pedro Gonçalves Pereira |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-09-01
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Series: | Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751917300439 |
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