Can the angle between optic nerves indicate whether optic chiasm is prefixed, normofixed or postfixed? An anatomical study with radiologic and neurosurgical implications.
Purpose: The objective of this study was to measure the angle ( Interneural angle, INA) between intracranial segments of optic nerves (ISON), and to look for any relation between it and the relative anteroposterior location (RAPL) of the optic chiasm (OC)-viz. prefixed, normofixed and postfixed. Met...
| Published in: | Surgical & Radiologic Anatomy Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 1175 - 1182 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2016
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