Magnetic resonance imaging after transsphenoidal surgery of clinically nonfunctional pituitary macroadenomas and its impact on detecting residual adenoma

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 433-443

  Kremer, P ^a   Forsting, M ^b   Ranaei, G ^a   Wuster C ^a   Hamer, J ^a   Sartor, K ^a   Kunze, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRI; Non functional pituitary adenoma; Postoperative imaging; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036273917     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010200064     Document Type: Article

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