Determining optimal MRI follow-up after transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma: Scan at 24 hours postsurgery provides reliable information

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1103-1126

  KIlIc T ^a   Ekinci, G ^b   Seker A ^a   ElmacI, I ^a   Erzen, C ^b   Pamir, M N ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFUNDIBULUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SELLA TURCICA; TISSUE GRAFT; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROLACTINOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035172967     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010100002     Document Type: Article

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