Nasal, Sellar, and Sphenoid Sinus Measurements in Relation to Pituitary Surgery

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 629-636

  Lazaridis, Nikolaos ^a   Natsis, Konstantinos ^a   Koebke, Juergen ^b   Themelis, Christos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endonasal transsphenoidal surgery; Sellar thickness; Sublabial transseptal transsphenoidal approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR NASAL SPINE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAUCASIAN; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NASAL BONE; NEUROANATOMY; NOSE CAVITY; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THICKNESS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; PITUITARY GLAND; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 77956595796     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20984     Document Type: Article

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