Evidence of improved surgical outcome following endoscopy for nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma removal: Personal experience and review of the literature

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Messerer, Mahmoud ^a   de Battista, Juan Carlos ^a   Raverot, Gérald ^b   Kassis, Sebouh ^a   Dubourg, Julie ^b   Lapras, Veronique ^c   Trouillas, Jacqueline ^b   Perrin, Gilles ^b   Jouanneau, Emmanuel ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery; Nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955459740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.1.FOCUS10308     Document Type: Article

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