Surgical management of tuberculum sellae meningiomas: Involvement of the optic canal and visual outcome

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 977-983

  Schick, Uta ^a,b   Hassler, W ^b  

^a Wedau Kliniken   (Germany)

^b Wedau Kliniken   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SEIZURE; SELLA TURCICA; SEPTICEMIA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 21344457221     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.039974     Document Type: Article

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