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What does transsphenoidal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (surgery) Through the nose and the sphenoid bone.
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Wilson was so dismayed by the outcome that he resolved he would teach himself how to do the transsphenoidal, which was then a relatively uncommon procedure.
Cushing's disease is an ACTH-producing pituitary adenoma, and the primary treatment is microscopic or endoscopic transsphenoidal selective adenectomy.
The primary treatment is transsphenoidal selective adenectomy, either microscopic or endoscopic.
He flew to Paris to observe Gerard Guiot, who was one of the great transsphenoidal surgeons at the time.
Results: The first patient presented with a pseudoaneurysm few days after a transsphenoidal surgery.
We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate outcomes in patients with a craniopharyngioma who were managed via a transnasal transsphenoidal approach.

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