Extended endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for residual or recurrent craniopharyngiomas: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 578-589

  Cavallo, Luigi M ^a   Prevedello, Daniel M ^b   Solari, Domenico ^a   Gardner, Paul A ^b   Esposito, Felice ^a   Snyderman, Carl H ^b   Carrau, Ricardo L ^b   Kassam, Amin B ^b   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery; Pituitary surgery; Recurrent craniopharyngioma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350475867     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.JNS081026     Document Type: Article

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