The role of endoscopic endonasal approach to pituitary tumours: HUKM experience

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 343-348

  Gendeh, Balwant Singh ^a,c   Doi, M ^a   Selladurai, B M ^a   Khalid, B A K ^a   Jegan, T ^a   Misiran, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Complications; Endoscopic transphenoidal approach; Pituitary tumours; Presentation; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 33751562603     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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