Treatment of Skull Base Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Challenge

Overview

Journal J Clin Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2023 Feb 25

PMID 36836028

Authors

Leonardo Franz

Elisabetta Zanoletti

Piero Nicolai

Marco Ferrari

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Abstract

The skull base has always been regarded as a frontier by surgeons and radiation oncologists since it represents the interface between the intracranial and the extracranial compartment and hosts several critical anatomical structures with an extremely complex and close relationship [...].

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