Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal removal of recurrent and regrowing pituitary adenomas: Experience on a 59-patient series

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 342-350

  Cavallo, Luigi M ^a   Solari, Domenico ^a   Tasiou, Anastasia ^b   Esposito, Felice ^a   De Angelis, Michelangelo ^a   D'Enza, Alfonso Iodice ^c   Cappabianca, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopic endonasal surgery; Endoscopy; Pituitary adenomas; Recurrences; Skull base; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; KETOCONAZOLE; OCTREOTIDE; PEGVISOMANT;

ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REMISSION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CSF; CT; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MRI; PITUITARY ADENOMAS; RECURRENCES; SKULL BASE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885172865     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.10.008     Document Type: Review

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