Transsphenoidal management of 28 symptomatic Rathke's cleft cysts, with special reference to visual and hormonal recovery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-17

  El Mahdy, Wael ^a   Powell, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocrine disturbances; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non neoplastic cysts; Pituitary cysts; Transsphenoidal microsurgery; Vision; Visual outcome

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINORRHEA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION;

EID: 0031889604     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199801000-00003     Document Type: Article

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