Endoscopic endonasal surgery for giant pituitary adenomas: Advantages and limitations

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 621-631

  Koutourousiou, Maria ^a   Gardner, Paul A ^a   Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^a   Paluzzi, Alessandro ^a   Wang, Eric W ^b   Snyderman, Carl H ^a,b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus invasion; Endoscopic endonasal surgery; Endoscopic skull base surgery; Giant pituitary adenoma; Oncology; Pituitary surgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPITUITARISM; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NOSE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPHENOID SINUS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84874592139     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.11.JNS121190     Document Type: Review

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