Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery: Analysis of complications in the authors' initial 800 patients - A review

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1544-1568

  Kassam, Amin B ^a,d   Prevedello, Daniel M ^a,e   Carrau, Ricardo L ^a,f   Snyderman, Carl H ^a   Thomas, Ajith ^a,g   Gardner, Paul ^a   Zanation, Adam ^a,h   Duz, Bulent ^a   Stefko, S Tonya ^a,b   Byers, Karin ^c   Horowitz, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^g BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Endonasal approach; Endoscopic surgery; Safety; Skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARACHNOID CYST; ASYSTOLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPILEPTIC STATE; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMANGIOFIBROMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INVERTED PAPILLOMA; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NERVE INJURY; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAGANGLIOMA; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLASMA CELL; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TERATOMA; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958014691     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.10.JNS09406     Document Type: Review

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