Comparative inpatient resource utilization for patients undergoing endoscopic or microscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary lesions: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-90

  Little, Andrew S ^a   Chapple, Kristina ^a   Jahnke, Heidi ^a   White, William L ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic surgery; Hospital charges; Pituitary surgery; Resource utilization; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MICROSCOPIC TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PHARMACY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL CHARGES; PITUITARY SURGERY; RESOURCE UTILIZATION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903899673     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.2.JNS132095     Document Type: Article

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