Postoperative improvement in visual function in patients with tuberculum sellae meningiomas: Results of the extended transsphenoidal and transcranial approaches

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Kitano, Masahiko ^a   Taneda, Mamoru ^a   Nakao, Yuzo ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pterional approach; Suprasellar meningioma; Transsphenoidal approach; Tuberculum sellae; Visual function

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE DEFECT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; EVALUATION; EXTENDED TANSSPHENOIDAL APPROACH ROUTE; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; OPERATION DURATION; OPTIC CANAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSCRANIAL APPROACH ROUTE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 34547654380     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS-07/08/0337     Document Type: Article

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