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The medial wall of the cavernous sinus. Part 2: Selective medial wall resection in 50 pituitary adenoma patients

2018; American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Volume: 131; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3171/2018.5.jns18595

1933-0693

Salomón Cohen-Cohen, Paul A. Gardner, João Tiago Alves-Belo, Huy Truong, Carl H. Snyderman, Eric Wang, Juan Fernandez‐Miranda,

Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

Pituitary adenomas often invade the medial wall of the cavernous sinus (CS), but this structure is generally not surgically removed because of the risk of vascular and cranial nerve injury. The purpose of this study was to report the surgical outcomes in a large series of cases of invasive pituitary adenoma in which the medial wall of the CS was selectively removed following an anatomically based, stepwise surgical technique.