Christos Georgalas

Consultant

Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Latest Contribution

Paediatric pituitary surgery - is it lagging behind?

1 May 2017 | | Kids Inpatient Database, hypophysectomy, pediatric pituitary resection, pituitary surgery, transsphenoidal

Endoscopic sellar surgery, especially for adenomas, is a relatively safe, straightforward surgery with (mostly) reproducible results and few complications. However, the evolution of pituitary surgery was a long process, starting from open/transfrontal approaches all the way to transsphenoid to the...

FESS for recurrent acute rhinosinusitis: at last, some data

1 March 2017 | | case-control studies, cost-benefit analysis, outcome assessment, patient outcome assessment, sinusitis

As noted in both the EPOS 2012 and in the (more recent) ICARS 2016, there is a paucity of evidence on the effectiveness of surgery for recurrent acute rhinosinusitis (RARS). The authors used a control group of patients with CRSsNP,...

Sellar surgery – when to prepare for repair

1 March 2017 | | craniopharyngioma, intraoperative leak, pituitary tumor, postoperative leak, skull base reconstruction

Endoscopic sellar surgery, especially for adenomas, is a relatively safe, straightforward surgery with (mostly) reproducible results and few complications. One of the commonest complications is the creation of a CSF leak with the subsequent need for repair (there is usually...