[PDF] Top 20 Endoscopic versus microscopic transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma surgery: a meta analysis

... Review Manager, version 4.2 (Revman, The Cochrane Collaboration; Oxford, UK) was used for the meta- analysis. All outcomes considered in this study were dichotomous and, therefore, proportions with their ... See full document

... pediatric microscopic endonasal patients than the results reported for endoscopic endonasal surgeries in other series ...of microscopic approach in pediatrics patients is due to lesser exposure which ... See full document

... dal pituitary surgery: microscopic and endoscopic ...during microscopic surgery, which is called endoscopy assisted ...surgery. Microscopic surgery used to ... See full document

... to pituitary surgery has changed significantly ...retrospective analysis of 30 patients with pituitary adenomas, submitted to endoscopic endonasal removal with a subsequent follow up ... See full document

... of adenoma (Hofstetter et ...(55%) versus macroadeno- mas (71%) owing to a high rate of lesions that may be overlooked on preoperative MRI imaging (Biller et ...croadenomas versus 100% of ... See full document

... A similar management protocol was observed for all patients. Monitoring included electrocardiogram, SpO 2 , invasive blood pressure, EtCO 2 and skin temperature in all patients. General anesthesia was induced with either ... See full document

... Abstract: Pituitary abscess is a rare but critical disorder caused by an infectious process where purulent material accumulates inside the sella ...of pituitary abscess are similar to several other ... See full document

... In conclusion, comparing with LRC, the incision length was longer in HALS, but it did not influence the postop- erative recovery. Although the operative time was 6.5 min shorter in HALS, it was not a clinically signifi- ... See full document

... From 2009 to 2013, 225 patients underwent surgical resection of pituitary tumors via endoscopic endonasal trans-sphenoidal approach. From this cohort, we retrospectively collected cases with visual ... See full document

... The advantage of the unilateral “ rescue ” nasoseptal flap With respect to postoperative morbidity, our results are comparable to that of other published series [1, 3, 4, 7–9, 20] in regards to factors such as ... See full document

... A pituitary adenoma, regardless of the size, rarely causes diabetes insipidus (DI) before surgical ...trans-sphenoidal pituitary adenoma ... See full document

... A retrospective review of 120 patients undergoing transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas revealed that computed tomography CT was less sensitive and less specific than hormonal m[r] ... See full document

... Assisted Microscopic Skull Base Surgery technique at Al-Azhar Uni- versity Hospitals during the period starting from January 2016 till the end of September 2017 using a rigid endoscope for inspection of ... See full document

... this meta-analyis, and consequently, the results should be interpreted with ...that meta- analyses carried out on well-designed NRCTs of surgi- cal procedures were probably as accurate as those carried out ... See full document

... present meta-analysis has certain ...of surgery, whether the patients were sexually active before the pro- cedures, are not mentioned in the original ... See full document

... The extent of tumor resection in trans-sphenoidal surgery can be reliably assessed by iCT. Compared with postoperative MR imaging, iCT provides good guidance for residual tumor re- section, and it not only holds ... See full document

... Out of the nine patients (belonging to group 1 and group 2 in 4 and 5 cases respectively) with postoperative hormonal persistence, they were submitted to pituitary MRI after 15 days from surgery, but a ... See full document

... A literature search was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, Medline, Embase and CNKI up to January 2014 without language restrictions. Relevant studies were identi- fied using the following terms: “endoscopic ... See full document

... second transsphenoidal surgery. Pathological analysis confirmed the diagnosis of null cell ...hypervascular pituitary tumor (arrowheads) with large feeders from the right meningohypophyseal ... See full document

... Neuronavigation (Medtronic, Minneapolis, ABD) with mach version 4.01 programme used in 72 patients in- stead of fluoroscopy (Figure 1). Computerized Tomography (CT) navigation has done 24 - 48 hours before ... See full document