Cushing's disease resulting from pituitary corticotrophic microadenoma: Treatment results from transsphenoidal microsurgery and gamma knife radiosurgery

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3 II, 2002, Pages 294-299

  Laws, E R ^a   Reitmeyer, M ^a   Thapar, K ^a   Vance, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH adenoma; Cushing's disease; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROADENOMA; MICROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; REMISSION INDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036277529     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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