Image-guided endonasal transsphenoidal microsurgical treatment of recurrent microadenomas of the pituitary gland

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-97

  Charalampaki, Patra ^a   Reisch, R ^a   Ayad, A ^a   Welschehold, S ^a   Conrad, J ^a   Wuster C ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Praxis für Endokrinologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neuroendoscopy; Neuronavigation; Pituitary surgery; Recurrence; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MICROADENOMA; MICROSURGERY; NOSE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROLACTINOMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEURONAVIGATION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744947324     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-932170     Document Type: Article

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