Prevention of intraoperative cerebrospinal fluid leaks by lumbar cerebrospinal fluid drainage during surgery for pituitary macroadenomas: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1299-1303

  Mehta, Gautam U ^a   Oldfield, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Lumbar drain; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary surgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID SINUS; VIRGINIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861964262     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.3.JNS112160     Document Type: Article

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