====== Pietro Mortini ======
http://www.pietromortini.com/

===== First Author =====


Mortini P, Barzaghi LR, Albano L, Panni P, Losa M. Microsurgical therapy of
[[pituitary neuroendocrine tumor]]s. Endocrine. 2018 Jan;59(1):72-81. doi:
10.1007/s12020-017-1458-3. Epub 2017 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 29067608.


2: Mortini P. Craniopharyngiomas: a life-changing tumor. Endocrine. 2017
Aug;57(2):191-192. doi: 10.1007/s12020-016-1192-2. Epub 2016 Dec 16. PubMed PMID:
27981519.


3: Mortini P, Gagliardi F, Bailo M, Boari N, Castellano A, Falini A, Losa M.
Resection of tumors of the third ventricle involving the hypothalamus: effects on
body mass index using a dedicated surgical approach. Endocrine. 2017
Jul;57(1):138-147. doi: 10.1007/s12020-016-1102-7. Epub 2016 Sep 29. PubMed PMID:
27688008.


4: Mortini P, Bailo M, Spina A, Acerno S, Boari N, Gagliardi F. Cyst-cisternal
shunting for cystic multirecurrent brainstem epidermoid: case report and
literature review. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2016 Jun;158(6):1197-201. doi:
10.1007/s00701-016-2813-5. Epub 2016 Apr 22. Review. PubMed PMID: 27106846.


5: Mortini P, Gagliardi F, Bailo M, Spina A, Parlangeli A, Falini A, Losa M.
Magnetic resonance imaging as predictor of functional outcome in
craniopharyngiomas. Endocrine. 2016 Jan;51(1):148-62. doi:
10.1007/s12020-015-0683-x. Epub 2015 Jul 16. PubMed PMID: 26179178.


6: Mortini P. Cons: endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery is not
superior to microscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.
Endocrine. 2014 Nov;47(2):415-20. doi: 10.1007/s12020-014-0365-0. Epub 2014 Aug
1. PubMed PMID: 25081297.


7: Mortini P, Gagliardi F, Boari N, Losa M. Surgical strategies and modern
therapeutic options in the treatment of craniopharyngiomas. Crit Rev Oncol
Hematol. 2013 Dec;88(3):514-29. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.07.013. Epub 2013 
Aug 7. Review. PubMed PMID: 23932582.


8: Mortini P, Gagliardi F, Boari N, Spina A, Bailo M, Franzin A. The suprameatal 
dural flap for superior petrosal vein protection during the retrosigmoid
intradural suprameatal approach. J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg. 2014
Jan;75(1):53-7. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1342935. Epub 2013 May 14. PubMed PMID:
23673670.


9: Mortini P, Gagliardi F, Boari N, Roberti F, Caputy AJ. The combined
interhemispheric subcommissural translaminaterminalis approach for large
craniopharyngiomas. World Neurosurg. 2013 Jul-Aug;80(1-2):160-6. doi:
10.1016/j.wneu.2012.06.042. Epub 2012 Aug 13. PubMed PMID: 22898031.


10: Mortini P, Barzaghi LR, Serra C, Orlandi V, Bianchi S, Losa M. Visual outcome
after fronto-temporo-orbito-zygomatic approach combined with early extradural and
intradural optic nerve decompression in tuberculum and diaphragma sellae
meningiomas. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2012 Jul;114(6):597-606. doi:
10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.12.021. Epub 2012 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 22225973.


11: Mortini P, Losa M, Pozzobon G, Barzaghi R, Riva M, Acerno S, Angius D, Weber 
G, Chiumello G, Giovanelli M. Neurosurgical treatment of craniopharyngioma in
adults and children: early and long-term results in a large case series. J
Neurosurg. 2011 May;114(5):1350-9. doi: 10.3171/2010.11.JNS10670. Epub 2011 Jan
7. PubMed PMID: 21214336.


12: Mortini P, Barzaghi R, Losa M, Boari N, Giovanelli M. Surgical treatment of
giant pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: strategies and results in a series of 95 consecutive
patients. Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun;60(6):993-1002; discussion 1003-4. PubMed PMID: 
17538372.


13: Mortini P, Mandelli C, Gerevini S, Giovanelli M. Exposure of the petrous
segment of the internal carotid artery through the extradural subtemporal middle 
cranial fossa approach: a systematic anatomical study. Skull Base. 2001
Aug;11(3):177-87. PubMed PMID: 17167619; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1656845.


14: Mortini P, Losa M, Barzaghi R, Boari N, Giovanelli M. Results of
transsphenoidal surgery in a large series of patients with pituitary neuroendocrine tumor.
Neurosurgery. 2005 Jun;56(6):1222-33; discussion 1233. PubMed PMID: 15918938.


15: Mortini P, Roberti F, Kalavakonda C, Nadel A, Sekhar LN. Endoscopic and
Microscopic Extended Subfrontal Approach to the Clivus: A Comparative Anatomical 
Study. Skull Base. 2003 Aug;13(3):139-147. PubMed PMID: 15912171; PubMed Central 
PMCID: PMC1131843.


16: Mortini P, Mandelli C, Franzin A, Giugni E, Giovanelli M. Surgical excision
of clival tumors via the enlarged transcochlear approach. Indications and
results. J Neurosurg Sci. 2001 Sep;45(3):127-39; discussion 140. PubMed PMID:
11731737.