Cerebral vasospasm after transsphenoidal resection of pituitary macroadenomas: Report of 3 cases and review of the literature

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Puri, Ajit S ^a   Zada, Gabriel ^a   Zarzour, Hekmat ^a   Laws, Edward ^a   Frerichs, Kai ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Complications; Macroadenoma; Pituitary; Transsphenoidal; Vascular

Indexed keywords

NIMODIPINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VASOSPASM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; CHROMOPHOBE ADENOMA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HEADACHE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORBIDITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROLACTINOMA; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TUMOR BLEEDING; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 84865593016     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31824aae21     Document Type: Article

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