ArticleBrain & spine2023
Endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery: How we do it. Consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section.
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- Long-Term Quality-of-Life Outcomes After Endoscopic Resection of Sinonasal and Skull Base Tumours: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026Pooled it
- Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Craniopharyngiomas With Intraventricular Extension: Anatomic-Clinical Considerations and Surgical Outcomes in a Series of 61 Patients.Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) · 2026Article
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- [Skull base surgery-where do we stand?]HNO · 2025Review
- Training in endoscopic endonasal surgery: EANS young neurosurgeons committee survey.Neurosurgical review · 2025Article
- Urinary oxytocin secretion after pituitary surgery, early arginine vasopressin deficiency and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis.Endocrine · 2025Article
- Human-Computer Vision Collaborative Measurement of Surgical Exposure and Length in Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2025Article
- Long-Term Quality of Life Among Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Pituitary Gland Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The Transorbital Approach: A Comprehensive Review of Targets, Surgical Techniques, and Multiportal Variants.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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19 authors at 15 institutions in 9 countries.
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Abstract
Introduction and research question: The use of an endoscope in skull base surgery provides a panoramic close-up view over the intracranial structures from multiple angles with excellent illumination, thus permitting greater extent of resection of tumors arising at sellar area, mostly represented by PitNet - Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors, with higher likelihood of preserving vital/intact gland tissue. For this refined specialty of neurosurgery, unique skills need to be acquired along a steep learning curve. Material and methods: EANS (European Association of Neurosurgical Societies) skull base section panelists were enrolled and 11 completed the survey: the goal was to provide a consensus statement of the endoscopic endonasal approach for pituitary adenoma surgery. Results: The survey consisted of 44 questions covering demographics data (i.e., academic/non-academic center, case load, years of experience), surgical techniques (i.e., use of neuronavigation, preoperative imaging), and follow-up management. Discussion and conclusions: In this paper we identified a series of tips and tricks at different phases of an endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery procedure to underline the crucial steps to perform successful surgery and reduce complications: we took in consideration the principles of the surgical technique, the knowledge of the anatomy and its variations, and finally the importance of adjoining specialties experts.
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