title: Suture knot on the repair splint: a simple method to facilitate reconstruction of the sella turcica during endonasal endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery. Technical note.
abstract: Reconstruction of the sellar floor after pituitary tumor removal is sometimes difficult because the repair graft is difficult to handle in the narrow space. This is especially problematic if the endonasal endoscopic approach is used. The authors devised a technique to facilitate this procedure by placing a suture knot on the repair splint. This allows the material to be grasped securely with forceps and improves manipulation even within the narrow nasal cavity. This technique has proved useful when performing the endonasal endoscopic approach, and it is also expected to be useful when conducting the conventional sublabial transsphenoidal approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Tominaga Hospital, and Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. sig-kubo@momo.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Shigeki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Inui
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tominaga
authors.forename: Toshiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshimine
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009666:Nose; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000601:surgery*; D013165:Splints; D013537:Sutures