Unusual causes of sellar/parasellar masses in a large transsphenoidal surgical series

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3455-3459

  Freda, Pamela U ^a   Wardlaw, Sharon L ^b   Post, Kalmon D ^b  

^a College Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERGOLIDE; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

TURCICA;

EID: 0029842828     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.10.3455     Document Type: Article

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