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Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-sphenoidal Approach: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas
Published on: January 17, 2018
Petrous apex cholesterol granuloma treated via the endoscopic transsphenoidal approach
1Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. ko-neuro@nms.ac.jp
Acta Neurochirurgica
|February 3, 2007
Abstract:
Numerous surgical approaches have been used to treat petrous apex cholesterol granulomas. They are usually treated via the transtemporal- or middle fossa approach; some are managed endoscopically. We present a patient treated by the endoscopic transsphenoidal approach and review the literature.
