Paolo Cappabianca

TL;DR: These guidelines represent the current recommendations on the diagnosis and management of prolactinomas based upon comprehensive analysis and synthesis of all available data.

TL;DR: The present document is intended to be a state-of-the art review of neoplasia affecting the nose, paranasal sinuses and adjacent skull base to provide an evidence-based review of the diagnostic methods and to propose algorithms for the management of the disease.

TL;DR: Overall, a decreased incidence of complications has been observed, compared with large historical series of the traditional microsurgical transsphenoidal approach, likely because of the overview inside the anatomy facilitated by the endoscope, and the decreased surgical trauma.

TL;DR: The endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach is a minimally invasive surgical technique for the removal of sellar and parasellar lesions via an anterior sphenoidotomy and ends with the reconstruction of the sella and removal of the endoscope from the nostril, without any postoperative nasal packing.

TL;DR: The current knowledge of the endoscopic anatomy of the midline skull base as seen from the endonasal perspective is reported, to describe the surgical path and structures whose knowledge is useful during the operation and the step-by-step surgical technique to access the different compartments.