Intra- and postoperative plasma ACTH concentrations in patients with cushing's disease cured by transsphenoidal pituitary surgery

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 971-977

  Czirjak S ^a   Bezzegh, A ^b   Gal A ^a   Racz K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSURGERY   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ACTH producing pituitary adenoma; Cushing's disease; Intraoperative plasma ACTH determination; Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CHILD; CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036032225     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s701-002-8284-y     Document Type: Article

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