Intrasellar arachnoid cysts

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 505-513

  Dubuisson, Annie S ^a   Stevenaert, Achille ^a   Martin, Didier H ^a   Flandroy, Pierre P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non neoplastic cysts; Pituitary diseases; Sella turcica; Transsphenoidal approach

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID SINUS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARACHNOID CYSTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 34548825674     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000290896.69825.40     Document Type: Article

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