ArticleNeurosurgical focus: Video2022
Contact endoscopy as a novel technique for intra-operative identification of normal pituitary gland and adenoma.
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- Challenges and opportunities for new intraoperative optical techniques in the surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas: a review.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Review
- Development and preclinical evaluation of an endonasal Raman spectroscopy probe for transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma surgery.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- Use of "enhanced contact endoscopy for pituitary surgery" in a collision sellar tumor (papillary craniopharyngioma + non-functional pituitary adenoma): Representative case illustration and two-dimensional operative video.Surgical neurology international · 2024Article
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Abstract
Intraoperative distinction of pituitary adenoma from normal gland is critical in maximizing tumor resection without compromising pituitary function. Contact endoscopy provides a noninvasive technique that allows for real-time in vivo visualization of differences in tissue vascularity. Two illustrative cases of endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEAs) for resection of pituitary adenoma illustrate the use of contact endoscopy in identifying tumor from gland and differentiating a thin section of normal gland draped over the underlying tumor, thereby allowing for safe extracapsular tumor resection. Contact endoscopy may be used as an adjunct for intraoperative, in vivo differentiation of pituitary gland and adenoma. The video can be found here: https://stream.cadmore.media/r10.3171/2021.10.FOCVID21199.
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