Combined simultaneous endoscopic transsphenoidal and endoscopic transventricular resection of a giant pituitary macroadenoma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 306-309

  Greenfield, J P ^a   Leng, L Z ^a   Chaudhry, U ^a   Brown, S ^a   Anand, V K ^a   Souweidane, M M ^a   Schwartz, T H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Giant pituitary macro adenoma; Transsphenoidal; Transventricular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GIANT PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TRANSVENTRICULAR RESECTION;

ADULT; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 55549098184     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1082323     Document Type: Article

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