Kochera Decortication

Kocher decortication is the surgical removal of the lateral horns of the adenohypophysis. The founder of decortication was the German surgeon Heinrich Kocher, who first published the technique of this operation in 1882. At the time the description arose, Kocher worked as an anesthesiologist and preferred to remove the pituitary adenoma during the period of anesthesia so that the patient remained calm and did not experience pain. How is this operation performed correctly? This is exactly what our article will talk about.

The essence of the procedure is the excision (removal) of the lateral processes of the adenohypophysis adenoma. There can be four in total