Safety management in urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan – A case report

Safety management in urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan – A case report

We report a 72-year-old woman who required urgent endonasal trans-sphenoidal surgery (eTSS) because of progressive visual field disturbance due to pituitary adenoma, in whom we conducted reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19 and chest CT before eTSS. We took care of h...

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Main Authors: Takuya Akai, Kunitaka Maruyama, Hiromasa Takakura, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Yoshitomo Morinaga, Satoshi Kuroda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Subjects:
COVID-19
Trans-sphenoidal surgery
RT-PCR
Chest CT
Pandemic
Insurance
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751920303819

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