Image-guided transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary lesions using Mehrkoordinaten Manipulator (MKM) navigation system

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 78-81

  Kajiwara, K ^a   Nishizaki, T ^a   Ohmoto, Y ^a   Nomura, S ^a   Suzuki, M ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MKM system; Navigation; Pituitary lesions; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MONITOR; OPTIC NERVE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0037641069     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39340     Document Type: Article

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