Basal interhemispheric supra- and/or infrachiasmal approaches via superomedial orbitotomy for hypothalamic lesions: Preservation of hypothalamo-pituitary functions in combination treatment with radiosurgery

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 250-256

  Inoue, Hiroshi K ^a   Fujimaki, Hiroya ^a   Kohga, Hideaki ^a   Ono, Nobuo ^a   Hirato, Masafumi ^a   Ohye, Chihiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Hypothalamas; Operative approach; Orbitotomy; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; OPTIC CHIASM; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION;

EID: 0030739953     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050078     Document Type: Article

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