Are nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas extending into the cavernous sinus aggressive and/or invasive?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 857-863

  Yokoyama, Shunichi ^a   Hirano, Hirofumi ^a   Moroki, Koichi ^b   Goto, Masamichi ^a   Imamura, Shinichi ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cathepsin B; Cavernous sinus; Invasion; Ki 67; MMP 9; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; GELATINASE B; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER INVASION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0034811995     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200110000-00014     Document Type: Article

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