Endoscopic endonasal compared with microscopic transsphenoidal and open transcranial resection of craniopharyngiomas

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-341

  Komotar, Ricardo J ^a   Starke, Robert M ^b   Raper, Daniel M S ^c   Anand, Vijay K ^d   Schwartz, Theodore H ^d  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endonasal; Endoscopic; Minimal access; Skull base; Surgery; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE; OPEN STUDY; OPEN TRANSCRANIAL RESECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SPHENOID; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSSPHENOIDAL MICROSCOPIC RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859699196     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.011     Document Type: Review

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