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Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-sphenoidal Approach: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas
Published on: January 17, 2018
[Rhinological surgical approach to the nasal ducts (author's transl)]
Abstract:
An obstruction along the nasal duct can be approached and removed by an operation through the nose: Rouge's technique for access to the orifice below the inferior turbinate, incision of the mucosal diaphragms over a sound passed into the nasal duct, insertion of a drainage tube; all under microscopic observation.
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