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Retrosigmoid approach: indications, techniques, and results
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Retrosigmoid approach: indications, techniques, and results

Mohamed Samy Elhammady, Fred F Telischi and Jacques J Morcos
Otolaryngologic clinics of North America, Vol.45(2), pp.375-397
2012-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.otc.2012.02.001
PMID: 22483823

Abstract

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This review describes the indications and techniques for the retrosigmoid approach for vestibular schwannoma, as performed by the skull base surgery group at the University of Miami. The authors present background of the retrosigmoid approach, surgical steps, and essential "technical pearls" to address complication avoidance, resulting from their expertise with this surgery.

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1 Clinical & Life Sciences
1.150 Hearing Loss
1.150.1556 Vestibular Schwannoma
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Otorhinolaryngology
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Clinical Medicine

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