Transsphenoidal decompression of the sellar floor for cavernous sinus meningiomas: Experience with 21 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-62

  Akutsu, Hiroyoshi ^a   Kreutzer, Jürgen ^a   Fahlbusch, Rudolf ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Cranial nerves; Hypopituitarism; Parasellar meningioma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SELLA TURCICA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROLACTIN; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67651146861     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000348016.69726.A6     Document Type: Article

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