title: Skull base lesions: a classification and surgical approaches.
abstract: An anatomic classification of lesions affecting the skull base is proposed according to which this region can be divided into a midline compartment and two lateral compartments: a petrotemporal and an infratemporal. The majority of lesions studied radiographically in 56 patients were confined to one of these anatomic subdivisions. The advantages of such a classification are discussed. The surgical approaches to these compartments and to the anterior middle and posterior cranial fossae are described relative to the lesions we have encountered.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed