Supradiaphragmatic retrochiasmatic craniopharyngioma in an 80-year-old patient operated by extended endoscopic endonasal approach: Case report

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 178-182

  Scarone, P ^a,b   Klap, P ^a   Heran F ^a   Robert, G G ^a  

^a Fondation Ophtalmologique Aclolphede Rothschild ^*  (France)

^b FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endoscopic; Supradiaphragmatic; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OPTIC CHIASM; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 46849120797     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1073136     Document Type: Article

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