Title: [Endoscopic surgery in occupation lesions of the skull base].
Abstract: To explore the application of endoscopic endonasal approach in surgery for occupation lesions of the skull base.Forty-two cases of skull base lesions treated by endoscopic endonasal surgery were analyzed retrospectively. There were 13 malignant tumors in anterior or middle cranial fossa, 8 chordoma, 5 invasive pituitary adenoma, 4 fibrous dysplasia of the sphenoid bone, 3 neurofibroma, 3 fibroangioma, 3 ossifying fibroma and 3 other lesions.Lesions were removed completely in 36 patients, 2 of them were performed in two stages because of sever bleeding, and subtotally in 6 patients. The complications included 1 acroisa of right eye and 1 cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea. Follow-up ranged 6 to 81 months after the surgery. Five patents were lost of follow-up. Eight patients recurred and 6 patients died.The endoscopic transnasal surgery is a safe, effective and minimally invasive approach to resect skull base lesions in condition of indications, surgeon's experience and the facilities.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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