Endoscopic transnasal craniotomy and the resection of craniopharyngioma

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1142-1148

  Stamm, Aldo C ^a   Vellutini, Eduardo ^b   Harvey, Richard John ^a   Nogeira, João Flávio ^a   Herman, Diego R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL PROFESSOR EDMUNDO VASCONCELOS   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Craniotomy; Endoscopic; Septal flap; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOID; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID SINUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47149119086     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318170b5dc     Document Type: Article

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