Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach through the bilateral nostrils for pituitary adenomas

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Yano, Shigetoshi ^a   Kawano, Takayuki ^a   Kudo, Mareina ^a   Makino, Keishi ^a   Nakamura, Hideo ^a   Kai, Yutaka ^b   Morioka, Motohiro ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral nostrils; Endoscopic surgery; Pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NOSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROLACTINOMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR REGRESSION; VISION;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEURONAVIGATION; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROLACTINOMA; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849108284     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.1     Document Type: Article

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