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Members of the Department of Neurological Surgery have published numerous articles on minimally invasive brain surgery over the past decade.

Completely endoscopic resection of intraparenchymal brain tumors.

Kassam AB, Engh JA, Mintz AH, and Prevedello DM (2008). J. Neurosurg 109(4).
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Expanded endoscopic endonasal resection of an olfactory schwannoma.

Kanaan HA, Gardner PA, Yeaney G, Prevedello DM, Monaco EA, Murdoch G, Pollack IF, and Kassam AB (2008). J Neurosurg Ped 2(4), 261-265.
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Endoscopic reconstruction of the cranial base using a pedicled nasoseptal flap.

Kassam AB, Thomas A, Carrau RL, Snyderman CH, Vescan A, Prevedello D, Mintz A, and Gardner P (2008). Neurosurgery 63(1 Suppl 1), ONS44-52.
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Endoscopic endonasal resection of anterior cranial base meningiomas.

Gardner PA, Kassam AB, Thomas A, Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, Mintz AH, and Prevedello DM (2008) Neurosurgery 63(1), 36-54.
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Outcomes following endoscopic, expanded endonasal resection of suprasellar craniopharyngiomas: A case series.

Gardner PA, Kassam AB, Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, Mintz AH, Grahovac S, and Stefko S (2008). J Neurosurg 109(1).
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The antero-medial triangle: the risk for cranial nerves ischemia at the cavernous sinus lateral wall. Anatomic cadaveric study.

Conti M, Prevedello DM, Madhok R, Faure A, Ricci UM, Schwarz A, Robert R, and Kassam AB (2008). Clin Neurol Neurosurg 110(7), 682-6.
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Endoscopic skull base surgery: Principles of endonasal oncological surgery.

Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, Kassam AB, Zanation A, Prevedello D, Gardner P, and Mintz A (2008). J Surg Oncol 97(8), 658-64.
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The evolution of the endonasal approach for craniopharyngiomas.

Gardner PA, Prevedello DM, Kassam AB, Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, and Mintz AH (2008). J Neurosurg 108(5), 1043-7.
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Expanded endonasal approach, a fully endoscopic transnasal approach for the resection of midline suprasellar craniopharyngiomas: a new classification based on the infundibulum.

Kassam AB, Gardner PA, Snyderman CH, Carrau RL, Mintz AH, and Prevedello DM (2008). J Neurosurg 108(4), 715-28.
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Endoscopic endonasal pituitary transposition for a transdorsum sellae approach to the interpeduncular cistern.

Kassam AB, Prevedello DM, Thomas A, Gardner P, Mintz A, Snyderman C, and Carrau R (2008). Neurosurgery 62(3 Suppl), 57-72; discussion 72-4.
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Endoscopic endonasal suturing of dural reconstruction grafts: a novel application of the U-Clip technology. Technical note.

Gardner P, Kassam A, Snyderman C, Mintz A, Carrau R, and Moossy JJ (2008). J Neurosurg 108(2), 395-400.
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Preoperative and intraoperative imaging for endoscopic endonasal approaches to the skull base.

Gardner PA, Kassam AB, Rothfus WE, Snyderman CH, and Carrau RL (2008). Otolaryngol Clin North Am 41(1), 215-30.
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Expanded endonasal approach: vidian canal as a landmark to the petrous internal carotid artery.

Kassam AB, Vescan AD, Carrau RL, Prevedello DM, Gardner P, Mintz AH, Snyderman CH, Rhoton AL (2008). J Neurosurg 108(1), 177-83.
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Endoscopic anatomy of the pterygopalatine fossa and the transpterygoid approach: development of a surgical instruction model.

Fortes FS, Sennes LU, Carrau RL, Brito R, Ribas GC, Yasuda A, Rodrigues AJ Jr, Snyderman CH, Kassam AB (2008). Laryngoscope 118(1), 44-9.
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