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Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-sphenoidal Approach: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas
Published on: January 17, 2018
Treatment of pituitary tumors: a surgical perspective
William F Chandler1, Ariel L Barkan
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, 3552 Taubman Center, Box 5338, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. wchndlr@med.umich.edu
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
|January 30, 2008
Abstract:
Surgical intervention is a necessary part of a multimodal approach to pituitary lesions. This article summarizes the surgical approach to different neoplastic processes affecting the sellar region.
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