Intraoperative gas cisternography and gas dissection in the operative treatment of pituitary tumors. A methodological description.
We have given a methodological description of gas dissection and gas cisternography used during transsphenoidal surgery. 200 consecutive patients with pituitary adenomas or craniopharyngeomas have been operated according to Cushing- Guiot -Hardy's procedure. 68 patients had suprasellar expansions in which gas dissection was used. The operative procedure with technical equipment and staff requirement is reported as well as the combined neurosurgical and neuroradiological techniques.
D000236:Adenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006801:Humans; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011011:Pneumoencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed