Extended endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for tuberculum sellae meningiomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 5 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  De Divitiis, Enrico ^a   Cavallo, Luigi M ^a   Esposito, Felice ^a   Stella, Lucio ^a   Messina, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Endoscope; Surgical technique; Transsphenoidal approach; Tuberculum sellae meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOCORIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVALESCENCE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 37348999949     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000303221.63016.f2     Document Type: Article

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