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Transsphenoidal Surgery for Cushing's Disease [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1986
A series of 101 patients with Cushing's disease underwent transsphenoidal surgery. Diagnosis was fundamentally based on dynamic testing, mainly on the dosage-dependent suppression of cortisol after dexamethasone. The effect of surgery was monitored by intraoperative ACTH measurements.
R, Fahlbusch, M, Buchfelder, O A, Müller   +2 more
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Endonasal Arteriovenous Fistula Following Transsphenoidal Resection of Pituitary Adenoma Treated with N-Butyl-2-Cyanoacrylate

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2019
Vascular lesions of the external carotid artery after transsphenoidal pituitary surgery are rare. Immediate diagnosis must be done and endovascular embolization is the treatment of choice.
Giancarlo Saal-Zapata, Walter Durand Castro, Rodolfo Rodriguez Varela   +2 more
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a pseudoaneurysm rupture after transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary macroadenoma: A case report

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021
The transsphenoidal approach is a surgical method that allows access to the pituitary mass without craniotomy. It is the primary surgical method for removing pituitary adenomas.
Jin Eun, Jae-Geun Ahn
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The role of stereotactic radiosurgery in the multimodal management of growth hormone–secreting pituitary adenomas [PDF]

, 2010
Growth hormone (GH)–secreting pituitary adenomas represent a common source of GH excess in patients with acromegaly. Whereas surgical extirpation of the culprit lesion is considered first-line treatment, as many as 19% of patients develop recurrent ...
Liu, Charles Y., Stapleton, Christopher J., Weiss, Martin H.   +2 more
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Use of the Hadad-Bassagasteguy Flap for Repair of Recurrent Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak after Prior Transsphenoidal Surgery

Allergy & Rhinology, 2013
The Hadad-Bassagasteguy vascularized nasoseptal pedicled flap (HBF) is an effective technique for reconstruction of skull base defects with low incidence of postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak.
Joseph Brunworth M.D., Tina Lin M.D., David B. Keschner M.D., Rohit Garg M.D., Jivianne T. Lee M.D.   +4 more
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Association between intravenous acetaminophen and reduction in intraoperative opioid consumption during transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2018
Background and Aims: Pain during and after transsphenoidal surgeries originates from stimulation of branches of the trigeminal cranial nerve that supply the inner aspect of the nose cavity and dura mater.
Upasana Banerjee, Katherine Hagan, Shreyas Bhavsar, Roxana Grasu, Anh Dang, Ian E McCutcheon, Miguel Suarez, Vijaya Gottumukkala, Juan P Cata   +8 more
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A macroprolactinoma becoming resistant to cabergoline and developing atypical pathology [PDF]

, 2016
Pituitary adenomas are a common intracranial neoplasm, usually demonstrating a benign phenotype. They can be classified according to pathological, radiological or clinical behaviour as typical, atypical or carcinomas, invasive or noninvasive, and ...
Ansorge, Olaf, Cudlip, Simon, Farah, George, Fathelrahman, Ahmed, Grossman, Ashley B, Karavitaki, Niki, Sbardella, Emilia   +6 more
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Intraoperative monitoring of visual evoked potentials in patients undergoing transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma: a systematic review

BMC Neurology, 2021
Background Transsphenoidal surgery is the gold standard for pituitary adenoma resection. Although rare, a serious complication of surgery is worsened vision post-operatively.
Farizeh Jashek-Ahmed, Ivan Cabrilo, Jarnail Bal, Brett Sanders, Joan Grieve, Neil L. Dorward, Hani J. Marcus   +6 more
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Progressive improvement of impaired visual acuity during the first year after transsphenoidal surgery for non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma [PDF]

, 2007
Improvement of visual field defects continues even years after the initial surgical treatment. Because this process of continuing improvement has not been documented for visual acuity, we audited our data to explore the pattern of recovery of visual ...
O. M. Dekkers, R. J. W. de Keizer, F. Roelfsema, A. A. vd Klaauw, P. J. Honkoop, H. van Dulken, J. W. A. Smit, J. A. Romijn, A. M. Pereira, J Feldkamp, DJ McComb, R Comtois, OM Dekkers, MJ Ebersold, M Powell, M Peter, X Zhang, AR Cohen, JC Trautmann, KE Jakobsson, JB Kerrison, KK Gnanalingham, G Findlay, F Ricci, C Kniestedt, J Hardy, RE Clifford-Jones, RE Clifford-Jones, KJ Smith, EJ Smith, R Klein, B Movsas   +31 more
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Historical movements in transsphenoidal surgery [PDF]

Neurosurgical Focus, 2001
Over the past century pituitary surgery has undergone multiple revolutions in surgical technique and technological advancements that have resulted in what is now recognized as modern transsphenoidal surgery. Although the procedure is well established in the current neurosurgical literature, the historical maze that led to its development continues to ...
C D, Gandhi, K D, Post
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