Sellar floor reconstruction after transsphenoidal surgery using fibrin glue without grafting or implants: technical note

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-49

  Seda, Lauro ^a   Camara, Rodio Brandao ^a   Cukiert, Arthur ^a   Burattini, Jose Augusto ^a   Mariani, Pedro Paulo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL BRIGADEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complications; Fibrin glue; Pituitary tumor; Techniques; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRIN GLUE; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMPLANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SELLA TURCICA; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745215612     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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