Surgical approaches to pituitary tumors

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-107

  Liu, James K ^a   Weiss, Martin H ^b   Couldwell, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXILLA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY;

HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE;

EID: 12244289620     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1042-3680(02)00033-5     Document Type: Review

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