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Transsphenoidal Approaches: Microscopic

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Shaped by the brilliant insight of individual surgeons and technological innovation, the microscopic transsphenoidal approach to the sellar and parasellar regions is a fascinating chronicle in surgical history whose evolution continues unabated. Indeed, although subtemporal, transfacial, and frontal transcranial routes were propounded at the turn of the 20th century, only the transsphenoidal route has endured as the preferred approach to the overwhelming majority of sellar and parasellar lesions.

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Dunn, I.F., Laws, E.R. (2010). Transsphenoidal Approaches: Microscopic. In: Cappabianca, P., Iaconetta, G., Califano, L. (eds) Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1167-0_17

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