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Optic Nerve Transection: A Model of Adult Neuron Apoptosis in the Central Nervous System
Published on: May 12, 2011
[Transcranial approach to the cranio-orbital area and orbital cavity]
Abstract:
Almost 90 years has passed from the moment of the development of transcranial approach to the cranio-orbital area and orbital cavity. But the application of the method was limited due to using mainly extracranial approaches. The authors have analyzed results of studying the parameters of transcranial approach to 32 orbits of 16 corpses of adult subjects, and results of treatment of 24 patients with neoplasms of the cranio-orbital area and orbit, operated by transcranial approach. The indications to different modifications of the approach and to each of the intermuscular approaches to the orbital nerve were established.
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