Transsphenoidal microsurgery: Past, present and future

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Ciric, Ivan S ^a   Zhao, Jin ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Future; History; Surgical anatomy; Technique; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN P53;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FLUOROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOGENESIS; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 33750050539     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.6.9s.s75     Document Type: Review

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