Incidence, risk factors and management of severe post-transsphenoidal epistaxis

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 116-122

  De Los Reyes, Kenneth M ^a   Gross, Bradley A ^a   Frerichs, Kai U ^a   Dunn, Ian F ^a   Lin, Ning ^a   Rincon Torroella, Jordina ^a   Annino, Donald J ^a   Laws, Edward R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Epistaxis; Management; Microscopic; Pituitary; Risk factors; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL SPONGE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR ETHMOIDAL PSEUDOANEURYSM; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPISTAXIS; EPISTAXIS BALLOON; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; GONADOTROPH ADENOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; NASAL PACKING; NULL CELL ADENOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROLACTINOMA; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THYROTROPIN SECRETING ADENOMA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; ADENOMA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANEURYSM, FALSE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEMOSTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SPHENOID; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPHENOID BONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920737399     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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