Journal of Neurosurgery Junio 2014

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Suprasellar meningioma

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Endoscopic endonasal surgery for suprasellar meningiomas: experience with 75 patients

With the goal of gross-total tumor resection and visual improvement, endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) can achieve very good results, (comparable to microscopic approaches) for the treatment of suprasellar meningiomas. Avoidance of brain and optic nerve retraction, preservation of the vascularization of the optic apparatus, and wide decompression of the optic canals are the main advantages of EES for the treatment of suprasellar meningiomas, while cerebrospinal fluid leakage remain a disadvantage 1).
1) Koutourousiou M, Fernandez-Miranda JC, Stefko ST, Wang EW, Snyderman CH, Gardner PA. Endoscopic endonasal surgery for suprasellar meningiomas: experience with 75 patients. J Neurosurg. 2014 Jun;120(6):1326-39. doi: 10.3171/2014.2.JNS13767. Epub 2014 Mar 28. PubMed PMID: 24678782.

Mary Koutourousiou, MD, joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery in May 2012 to complete a clinical fellowship in open and endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery with Drs. P.A. Gardner and J.C. Fernandez-Miranda. Prior to this appointment, since April 2010, she was a research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Koutourousiou, a native from Thessaloniki, Greece, received her medical degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and completed her neurosurgical residency at the General Hospital of Athens “G. Gennimatas”, Athens, Greece. She has completed a clinical fellowship in minimally invasive and endoscopic neurosurgery with Prof. J.A. Grotenhuis at the Department of Neurosurgery, UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dr. Koutourousiou is accomplishing her Ph.D. on the Endocrinology and Pathophysiology of pituitary adenomas at the University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece.

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