Endoscopic, endonasal resection of craniopharyngiomas: Analysis of outcome including extent of resection, cerebrospinal fluid leak, return to preoperative productivity, and body mass index

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 110-123

  Leng, Lewis Z ^a   Greenfield, Jeffrey P ^a   Souweidane, Mark M ^a   Anand, Vijay K ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endonasal; Endoscopic; Intraventricular; Minimal access; Outcome measures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; EMPLOYMENT; ENDONASAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROSS TOTAL RESECTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81455159690     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822e8ffc     Document Type: Article

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