Transcranial surgery for pituitary adenomas

Pituitary

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 375-384

  Buchfelder, Michael ^a,b   Kreutzer, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Indications; Pituitary adenomas; Surgical results; Technical developments; Transcranial surgery

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROLACTINOMA; REVIEW; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WATER RETENTION;

ADENOMA; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55649098606     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-008-0120-8     Document Type: Review

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