Devastating complications from alcohol cauterization of recurrent Rathke cleft cyst: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1087-1090

  Hsu, Hugo Y ^b   Piva, Alfio ^b   Sadun, Alfredo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alcohol cauterization; Blindness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rathke cleft cyst; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CAUTERIZATION; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN CYST; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EXCISION; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OLFACTORY NERVE; OPTIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SELLA TURCICA; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 2442697763     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.100.6.1087     Document Type: Article

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