The expanding role of endoscopic skull base surgery

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 649-661

  Paluzzi, Alessandro ^a   Gardner, Paul ^a   Fernandez Miranda, Juan Carlos ^a   Snyderman, Carl ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Endoscopy; Meningioma; Pituitary; Skull base tumours

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ANEURYSM CLIP; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CANCER STAGING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DEVASCULARIZATION; DIPLOPIA; EMPHYSEMA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL APPROACH; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LEARNING CURVE; LIQUORRHEA; MENINGITIS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OPERATION DURATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKULL SURGERY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHORDOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENDOSCOPY; FORECASTING; GRANULOMA; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LEARNING CURVE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; ORBITAL DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866065327     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2012.673649     Document Type: Review

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