Therapeutic strategy for incidentally found pituitary tumors ('Pituitary incidentalomas')

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1344-1350

  Nishizawa, Shigeru ^a   Ohta, Seiji ^a   Yokoyama, Tetsuo ^a   Uemura, Kenichi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MRI; Pituitary apoplexy; Pituitary incidentaloma; Surgical indication; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

EID: 0031761343     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199812000-00047     Document Type: Article

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