Malignant prolactinoma: Case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-55

  Popadić, Aleksandar ^a   Witzmann, Alfred ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^b   Eiter, Helmut ^a   Komminoth, Paul ^c  

^a Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bromocriptine; Hormone active tumor; Malignant prolactinoma; Metastasis; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PROLACTINOMA; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

EID: 0032936758     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00458-8     Document Type: Article

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