title: Surgical approaches to the clivus and upper cervical spine.
abstract: The surgical approach to the lesions of the craniocervical junction raises important problems about the choice of the access. The authors debate the advantages and the disadvantages of the principal approaches, presenting their clinical experience of 8 operated patients and discerning between intradural approaches and extradural submucosal or transmucosal approaches.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Division, Varese Regional Hospital, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scamoni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marra
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dario
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ciccaglioni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dorizzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D002817:Chordoma / Q000601:surgery; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000601:surgery; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009777:Occipital Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013100:Sphenoid Bone / Q000601:surgery*