Expanded endoscopic endonasal approach for anterior cranial base and suprasellar lesions: Indications and limitations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 677-687

  Dehdashti, Amir R ^a,b   Ganna, Ahmed ^a   Witterick, Ian ^a   Gentili, Fred ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Geisinger Neurosciences Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Craniopharyngioma; Endonasal approach; Endoscopic surgery; Esthesio neuroblastoma; Expanded; Minimally invasive; Skull base; Transsphenoidal tumors

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA, OLFACTORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL BASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649839971     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000339121.20101.85     Document Type: Article

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