Technical considerations of transsphenoidal removal of fibrous pituitary adenomas and evaluation of collagen content and subtype in the adenomas

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 202-212

  Naganuma, Hirofumi ^a   Satoh, Eiji ^a   Nukui, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen; Fibrous pituitary adenoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPHENOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0036274644     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.42.202     Document Type: Article

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