Extended endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for extrasellar craniopharyngiomas

Neurosurgery

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

  De Divitiis, Enrico ^a   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a   Cavallo, Luigi M ^a   Esposito, Felice ^a   De Divitiis, Oreste ^a   Messina, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Craniopharyngioma; Endoscope; Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery; Suprasellar lesions

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MYCOSIS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 37349123552     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000303220.55393.73     Document Type: Article

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