Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal removal of an intra-suprasellar schwannoma mimicking a pituitary adenoma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 230-234

  Esposito, F ^a   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a   Del Basso De Caro, M ^a   Cavallo, L M ^a   Rinaldi, C ^b   De Divitiis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Unit of Dermatology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopic approach; Pituitary; Schwannoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FAINTNESS; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NEURORADIOLOGY; SELLA TURCICA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADENOMA; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 4544321177     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-818524     Document Type: Article

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