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ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA
Volume 151, Issue 7, Pages 723-728Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0297-2
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Endoscopic surgery
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Having just celebrated the centenary of the first transsphenoidal pituitary operation by (Schloffer in Austria in Beitr Klin Chir 50:767-817, 1906), and this year the quarter centenary of the first published report of a therapeutic use of the neuroendoscope (for colloid cysts of the third ventricle) (Powell et al. in Neurosurgery 13:234-237, 1983), it is time to consider the relative merits of microscopic and endoscopic approaches for pituitary surgery. Although transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery has only been utilised by pioneers such as Jho since the mid-1990s (Jho et al., 1996), there is no doubt that it has already gained an important place in the neurosurgical armamentarium, but there is both confusion and propaganda about which method of surgery has most to offer, and indeed whether or not there is any real difference at all.
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