skull base
base of skull

She could get into some other chips at the skull base.

As I rode to join her, my hair stirred a little at skull base.

Diagnosis explained an open brain injury and a fracture of the skull base.

Until recently, surgery on the skull base was stymied by its inaccessibility.

It runs from the skull base to the sacrum.

The original (and still utilized) method is called 6D or skull based tracking.

Involvement of the spine and skull base may cause a poor outcome from neurological complications.

I shifted to a shot of the skull base, and indicated the zygomatics.

Leave the damage to the skull bases intact.

People with other skull base tumors welcome.

Adjacent to the pituitary lies a part of the skull base known as the cavernous sinus.

Chordomas can arise from bone in the skull base and anywhere along the spine.

The ear infections are mainly associated with Eustachian tube dysfunction due to alterations in the skull base.

Rhinology pertains to sinus diseases and the anterior skull base.

This procedure may be groundbreaking for patients with aneurysms near the skull base, as an approach through the nose is less invasive than traditional approaches.

Spetzler specializes in cerebrovascular disease and skull base tumors.

Tumor involves bony structures of skull base and/or paranasal sinuses.

The skull is large, with a narrow foramen magnum, and relatively small skull base.

Metastases to the skull base quickly become symptomatic because of their proximity to cranial nerves and vascular structures.

Many meningiomas, with the exception of some tumors located at the skull base, can be successfully removed surgically.

Tumor with direct or perineural invasion of skull base or axial skeleton.

Skull base tumors can be treated in a variety of ways including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy or even a combination of these treatments.

Implanted, skull base.

Metastases to the skull are divided into two categories by general site: calvarium and skull base.

Skull Base Surgery.

The base of skull injury is here, when you get somebody with that base.

Exit wound in the left occipital region, base of skull.

The superior aspect is the base of skull, namely the sphenoid and temporal bones.

The average distance traveled by nerve from base of skull to crossing the internal jugular vein was 2.38 cm.

The base of skull is the most inferior area of the skull, composed of the endocranium and lower parts of the skull roof.

For maxillary sinus tumors: High-dose radiation therapy is used because extension to base of skull and nasopharynx is a potential, but not absolute, contraindication to surgery.

It is located posterior to the maxilla, between the lateral pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone medially and by the base of skull superiorly.

The sella turcica is a saddle-shaped depression located in the bone at the base of skull (sphenoid bone), in which resides the pituitary gland.

Postero-superiorly this extends from the level of the junction of the hard and soft palates to the base of skull, laterally to include the fossa of Rosenmuller.

The hardened earth was quaking violently, long jagged cracks appearing from the base of Skull Mountain and snaking crookedly toward the ring of natural hazards that bound the forbidden land.

A few are flying around the large cave at the base of Skull Mountain, while others are seen at Kong's lair near the top of Skull Mountain.

Hug EB, Sweeney RA, Nurre PM, et al.: Proton radiotherapy in management of pediatric base of skull tumors.

Hoch BL, Nielsen GP, Liebsch NJ, et al.: Base of skull chordomas in children and adolescents: a clinicopathologic study of 73 cases.

Direct invasion or compression from continuous tissues relates to the proximity of the nervous system to other structures, such as the brachial plexus, lumbosacral plexus, vertebral neuroforamina, base of skull, cranium, and pelvic bones.

The hematoma may spread downwards and backwards behind the ear, which may be confused with Battle's sign (a sign of a base of skull fracture), although this is an uncommon finding so if present, intra-cranial injury must be ruled out.

The use of nasogastric intubation is contraindicated in patients with use with base of skull fractures, severe facial fractures especially to the nose and obstructed esophagus, esophageal varices, and/or obstructed airway as well as clotting disorders.

Destruction of the base of skull (i.e., anterior cranial fossa), cavernous sinus, or the pterygoid process; infiltration of the mucous membranes of the nasopharynx; or nonresectable lymph node metastases are relative contraindications to surgery.

Although its appearance may be alarming, in general a subconjunctival hemorrhage is a painless and harmless condition; however, it may be associated with high blood pressure, trauma to the eye, or a base of skull fracture if there is no posterior border of the hemorrhage visible.

Patients with Melnick-Needles syndrome have typical facies (exophthalmos, full cheeks, micrognathia and malalignment of teeth), flaring of the metaphyses of long bones, s-like curvature of bones of legs, irregular constrictions in the ribs, and sclerosis of base of skull.