Complications
Postoperative complications are summarised in Table 4. The rates of neurosurgical complications, including transient diabetes insipidus, hypopituitarism, and postoperative CSF leakage were not significantly different between the two groups (P = .77, 1.00 and 1.00, respectively). No patients had meningitis, prolonged diabetes insipidus or intracranial hemorrhage.
One patient (4%) in each group reported self-limiting epistaxis. One (4%) patient in the transseptal group was found to have septal infection and was treated successfully with short-term antibiotics. There was no significant difference in these two complications between the two groups (P = 1.00 and 1.00, respectively). None of the patients in the transseptal group had postoperative septal perforation.