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Received: 31 Jul 2025 | Accepted: 24 Aug 2025 | Published: 16 Sep 2025

Abstract

Keywords

endoscopic transoral surgery | skull base tumor | nasopharyngeal carcinoma | craniovertebral junction | parapharyngeal space

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