Surgical management of symptomatic intrasellar arachnoid cysts - Two case reports

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 941-945

  Miyamoto, Tadashi ^a   Ebisudani, Daizou ^a   Kitamura, Katsushi ^a   Ohshima, Tsutomu ^b   Horiguchi, Hidehisa ^a   Nagahiro, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Anan Kyoei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniotomy; Symptomatic intrasellar arachnoid cyst; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0033391147     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.941     Document Type: Article

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