Endoscopic endonasal versus open transcranial resection of anterior midline skull base meningiomas

RJ Komotar, RM Starke, DMS Raper, VK Anand… - World neurosurgery, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To assess the advantages and limitations of the endoscopic endonasal
approach to anterior skull base meningiomas, a minimally invasive approach that avoids …

Olfactory groove meningiomas

SJ Hentschel, F DeMonte - Neurosurgical focus, 2003 - thejns.org
Object Olfactory groove meningiomas (OGMs) arise over the cribriform plate and may reach
very large sizes prior to presentation. They can be differentiated from tuberculum sellae …

Endoscopic endonasal resection of anterior cranial base meningiomas

PA Gardner, AB Kassam, A Thomas… - …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: The endonasal route may be feasible for the resection of anterior cranial base
tumors that abut the paranasal sinuses. There are several case reports and mixed case …

Surgical management of tuberculum sellae meningiomas: involvement of the optic canal and visual outcome

U Schick, W Hassler - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & …, 2005 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective: To present a large series of surgically treated tuberculum sellae meningiomas
with particular regard to involvement of the optic canal and visual outcome. Methods: A …

Endoscopic endonasal pituitary transposition for a transdorsum sellae approach to the interpeduncular cistern

AB Kassam, DM Prevedello, A Thomas… - Operative …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: The interpeduncular cistern, including the retroinfundibular area, is one of the
most challenging regions to approach surgically. The pituitary gland and the infundibulum …

Optic canal involvement in tuberculum sellae meningiomas: influence on approach, recurrence, and visual recovery

M Mahmoud, R Nader, O Al-Mefty - Operative Neurosurgery, 2010 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To emphasize the high frequency of optic canal (OC) involvement in
tuberculum sellae meningiomas; the importance of opening the OC and of removing tumor …

Tuberculum sellae meningiomas: functional outcome in a consecutive series treated microsurgically

H Bassiouni, S Asgari, D Stolke - Surgical neurology, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to analyze a series of patients harboring a
tuberculum sellae meningioma with regard to clinical presentation and long-term functional …

Postoperative improvement in visual function in patients with tuberculum sellae meningiomas: results of the extended transsphenoidal and transcranial approaches

M Kitano, M Taneda, Y Nakao - Journal of neurosurgery, 2007 - thejns.org
Object Recently, extended transsphenoidal surgery (ETSS) has become an alternative to
transcranial surgery (TCS) for suprasellar meningiomas, although the relative benefits of …

Planum sphenoidale and tuberculum sellae meningiomas: operative nuances of a modern surgical technique with outcome and proposal of a new classification …

MM Mortazavi, HB da Silva, M Ferreira Jr, JK Barber… - World neurosurgery, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The resection of planum sphenoidale and tuberculum sellae meningiomas is
challenging. A universally accepted classification system predicting surgical risk and …

Outcome determinants of pterional surgery for tuberculum sellae meningiomas

MN Pamir, K Özduman, M Belirgen, T Kilic… - Acta neurochirurgica, 2005 - Springer
Background. Current literature on tuberculum sellae meningiomas is very heterogenous due
to wide variation in nomenclature, diagnostic and operative techniques. The aim of this study …