Transnasal endoscopic surgery of the pituitary: Modifications and results over 10 years

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1573-1576

  Kelley, Richard T ^a   Smith II, Joseph L ^a   Rodzewicz, Gerald M ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic surgery; Pituitary; Sphenoid

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CRANIOTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS SURGERY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; NOSE SEPTUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TURBINATE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748537721     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000231269.00161.44     Document Type: Review

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