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Surgery
Author(s) -
A. E. Halstead
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1968.tb83477.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web
Surgery of the Pituitary Gland. A. E. Halstead reports two cases of tumour of the hypophysis operated on by the oro-nasal method, and at the same time gives a concise summary of the different methods suggested and adopted for the removal of such tumours (Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, May 1910). Two routes are possible-the intracranial and the extracranial or trans-sphenoidal. Through the former the gland may be reached either by way of the anterior or the middle cranial fossa, and the greater part of the operation may be extradura , 01 t ie c ura may be opened early. , , ?.?j Through the anterior fossa various procedures have been sugge ,