Objective criteria for successful transsphenoidal removal of suprasellar nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas. A prospective study

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Honegger, J ^a   Ernemann, U ^a   Psaras, T ^a   Will, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma; Outcome; Suprasellar extension; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHINORRHEA; SELLA TURCICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPRASELLAR PITUITARY ADENOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADENOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846132231     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-006-1044-6     Document Type: Article

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