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Which factors affect the postoperative CSF leak following endoscopic skull base surgery?

6 September 2021 | | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery | Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery, multiple surgeries, postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak

Endoscopic skull base surgery is being increasingly performed worldwide for skull base tumours. Common indications include pituitary tumours, rathke cleft cysts, chordomas, craniopharyngiomas and olfactory neuroblastomas. The most common and important complication following endoscopic skull base surgery is postoperative CSF...