Reconstruction of the sellar floor following transsphenoidal surgery using gelatin foam and fibrin glue

Chinese Medical Sciences Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 198-201

  Yin, Jian ^a   Su, Chang Bao ^a,b   Xu, Zhi Qin ^a   Xia, Xue Wei ^a   Song, Fei ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Sellar floor reconstruction; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GELATIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CHORDOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOAM; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINORRHEA; SELLA TURCICA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 26944471696     PISSN: 10019294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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