Extended endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for the removal of suprasellar tumors: Part 2

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-58

  De Divitiis, Enrico ^a   Cavallo, Luigi Maria ^a   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a   Esposito, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endoscope; Meningioma; Pituitary adenoma; Suprasellar lesions; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHENOID; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 33846203822     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249211.89096.25     Document Type: Article

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