Extended endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach to the suprasellar area: Anatomic considerations - Part 1

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Cavallo, Luigi M ^a   De Divitiis, Oreste ^a   Aydin, Salih ^b   Messina, Andrea ^a   Esposito, Felice ^a   Iaconetta, Giorgio ^a   Talat, Kiris ^c   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a   Tschabitscher, Manfred ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Endoscope; Endoscopic anatomy; Skull base; Suprasellar lesions; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CADAVER; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL TRANSSPHENOIDAL APPROACH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MICROSURGERY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID SINUS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

CADAVER; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NOSE; SPHENOID BONE;

EID: 34548688002     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000289708.49684.47     Document Type: Article

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