The endonasal microscopic approach for pituitary adenomas and other parasellar tumors: A 10-year experience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Fatemi, Nasrin ^a   Dusick, Joshua R ^b   De Paiva Neto, Manoel A ^a   Kelly, Daniel F ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Craniopharyngioma; Endonasal transsphenoidal approach; Endoscope; Meningioma; Pituitary adenoma; Rathke's cleft cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHORDOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DEATH; ENDONASAL TRANSPHENOIDAL APPROACH; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROADENOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; PARASELLAR MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIC CHIASM; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749117842     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000327025.03975.BA     Document Type: Article

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