Surgery for Rathke cleft cysts: Technical considerations and outcomes

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 577-584

  Benveniste, Ronald J ^a   King, Wesley A ^a   Walsh, Jane ^a   Lee, Jacob S ^a   Naidich, Thomas P ^a   Post, Kalmon D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease recurrence; Pituitary; Rathke cleft cyst; Repeated surgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; ALCOHOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DESMOPRESSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BONE REMODELING; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCIDENCE; LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MOTIVATION; NAUSEA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE PARALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SELLA TURCICA; SINUSITIS; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN TUMOR; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SPHENOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944228330     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.101.4.0577     Document Type: Article

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