%0 Journal Article %T A craniotomia pterional: descri£¿£¿o passo a passo %A Chaddad Neto %A Feres %A Ribas %A Guilherme Carvalhal %A Oliveira %A Evandro de %J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria %D 2007 %I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO %R 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000100021 %X this article intends to describe in a didactical and practical manner the frontotemporosphenoidal craniotomy, that is usually known as pterional craniotomy and that constitute the cranial approach mostly utilized in the modern neurosurgery. this is then basically a descriptive text, divided according to the main stages involved in this procedure, and that describes with details how the authors currently perform this craniotomy. %K neurosurgery %K craniotomy %K microsurgery. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2007000100021&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en