Utility and safety of the flexible-Fiber CO2 laser in endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 149-155

  Jayarao, Mayur ^a   Devaiah, Anand K ^a,b   Chin, Lawrence S ^a,b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscope; Laser; Pituitary tumor; Sellar; Skull base; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; AGED; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYBERKNIFE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; LASER SURGERY; LIQUORRHEA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTINOMA; RADIOGRAPHY; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, GAS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROLACTINOMA; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051768876     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.10.038     Document Type: Review

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