Pituitary adenomas are the most common cause of a mass in the sella. In as many as 9% of
cases, other etiologies are responsible for mass lesions in the sellar region54, 131 (Table …

Object Transcranial approaches to clival chordomas provide a circuitous route to the site of
origin of the tumor often involving extensive bone drilling and brain retraction, which places …

Object The midline skull base is an anatomical area that extends from the anterior limit of the
cranial fossa down to the anterior border of the foramen magnum. Resection of lesions …

OBJECTIVE: Endonasal and supraorbital “eyebrow” craniotomies are increasingly being
used to remove craniopharyngiomas and tuberculum sellae meningiomas. Herein, we …

OBJECTIVE: Cranial base chordomas are difficult lesions to treat. The endoscopic
endonasal approach (EEA) takes advantage of the natural sinus corridor and may provide a …

OBJECTIVE: We report our experience with endoscopic transsphenoidal or extended
endoscopic transsphenoidal approaches for the treatment of cranial base lesions such as …

Skull base chordomas account for less than 0.2% and chondrosarcomas for less than 0.15%
of all intracranial tumors. Although their clinical and imaging presentations are similar, they …

BACKGROUND: Although considered slow-growing, low-grade malignancies, chordomas
are locally aggressive and destructive tumors with high recurrence rates. OBJECTIVE: To …

Abstract ENDOSCOPY OFFERS INTERNAL visualization of many different cavities of the
human body, with its specific vision inside the anatomy, close to the target area. The view of …

OBJECTIVE In the last 2 decades, the endoscopic endonasal approach in the treatment of
clival chordomas has evolved to be a viable strategy to achieve maximal safe resection of …