Extended endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach

The extended endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach, provides a direct midline exposure to retrochiasmatic craniopharyngiomas and allows safe bimanual microsurgical dissection of the tumor from the undersurface of the optic chiasm (OC) and hypothalamus.

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