Long-term Magnetic Resonance Imaging Follow-up of Asymptomatic Sellar Tumors: Their Natural History and Surgical Indications

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 592-599

  Igarashi, Takuji ^a   Saeki, Naokatsu ^a   Yamaura, Akira ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

incidentaloma; magnetic resonance imaging; pituitary adenoma; pituitary tumor; Rathke's cleft cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 0032782885     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.592     Document Type: Article

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