Complications of transsphenoidal surgery in patients with pituitary adenoma: Experience at a single centre

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 149, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 877-885

  Barzaghi, L R ^a,c   Losa, M ^a   Giovanelli, M ^a   Mortini, P ^b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications of surgery; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary surgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHOLANGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; KIDNEY COLIC; LARYNX SPASM; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MICROADENOMA; MUCOCELE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOSE SEPTUM PERFORATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; SINUSITIS; TETANY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 34548287576     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-007-1244-8     Document Type: Article

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