Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery in Cushing's disease: Can we predict outcome?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 617-626

  Chee, G H ^a,c   Mathias, D B ^a   James, R A ^b   Kendall Taylor, P ^b  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035723576     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01261.x     Document Type: Article

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