[Experience with transcranial surgery of hypophyseal adenomas].
The article generalizes experience in intracranial operations on 453 patients performed at the Institute of Neurosurgery, AMS, USSR in 1983-1987. The tumors had a pronounced extrasellar growth in most cases. The surgical approaches and the peculiarities of surgical techniques in removal of pituitary adenomas are described. The importance of microsurgical techniques which raise the radical character of the surgical interventions and improve their results is discussed.
Sokolov
A F
AF
Kadashev
B A
BA
Faller
T O
TO
Lebedev
A N
AN
Raevskaia
S A
SA
D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012658:Sella Turcica; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Opyt transkranial'nykh operatsiĭ pri adenomakh gipofiza.