Endonasal management of sellar arachnoid cysts: Simple cyst obliteration technique - Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 728-740

  McLaughlin, Nancy ^a   Vandergrift, Alexander ^a   Ditzel Filho, Leo F ^a   Shahlaie, Kiarash ^a   Eisenberg, Amalia A ^a   Carrau, Ricardo L ^b   Cohan, Pejman ^c   Kelly, Daniel F ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Endonasal surgery; Endoscope; Sella turcica; Skull base; Subarachnoid space; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARACHNOID CYSTS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 84859332726     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.12.JNS11399     Document Type: Article

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