Complications of transsphenoidal surgery: Results of a national survey, review of the literature, and personal experience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-237

  Ciric, Ivan ^a,b   Ragin, Ann ^a   Baumgartner, Craig ^a   Pierce, Debi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; National survey; Personal experience; Review of literature; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTERY INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADENOMA; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRANIOTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; SPHENOID BONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031022416     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199702000-00001     Document Type: Review

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