Sellar reconstruction with resorbable vicryl patches, gelatin foam, and fibrin glue in transsphenoidal surgery: A 10-year experience with 376 patients

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 762-765

  Seiler, R W ^a   Mariani, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Sella turcica; Transsphenoidal surgery; Vicryl patch

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN GLUE; GELFOAM; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN;

ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOSE SEPTUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SELLA TURCICA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034432965     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2000.93.5.0762     Document Type: Article

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