Microsurgical management of giant pituitary tumors

Skull Base Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-26

  King, Wesley A ^a   Rodts Jr , Gerald E ^a   Becker, Donald P ^a   Me Bride, Duncan Q ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSURGERY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0030005731     PISSN: 10521453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058909     Document Type: Article

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