The endoscopic extended transsphenoidal approach for craniopharyngiomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Frank, Giorgio ^a   Pasquini, Ernesto ^b   Doglietto, Francesco ^a   Mazzatenta, Diego ^a   Sciarretta, Vittorio ^b   Farneti, Giovanni ^c   Calbucci, Fabio ^a  

^a BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Azienda USL di Bologna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endoscopic; Extended; Supradiaphragmatic; Suprasellar; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISION;

ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEUROGENIC; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OBESITY; OPTIC CHIASM; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID SINUS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW;

EID: 33745798243     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000219897.98238.A3     Document Type: Article

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