Word: sphenoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merely to locate the pituitary, encased in a bony box like a bomb shelter in the middle of the skull, is a highly delicate, dangerous procedure, and surgeons have tried several approaches. Dr. Robert W. Rand and his team at U.C.L.A. go in through the nasal passages and the sphenoid bone that lies behind them. First, the patient's head is clamped in a stereotactic device that enables the surgeons to take bearings in three dimensions. Then the surgeons saw through the intervening bone and insert the ultracold cannula. Dr. Rand found that temperatures...