Comparison of growth hormone-producing and non-growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas: Imaging characteristics and pathologic correlation

Radiology

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 533-538

  Hagiwara, Akira ^a   Inoue, Yuichi ^b   Wakasa, Kenichi ^b   Haba, Tomoko ^b   Tashiro, Takahiko ^b   Miyamoto, Takeshi ^b  

^a Osaka City Juso Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hormones; Pituitary, MR; Pituitary, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; GROWTH HORMONE; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0042343632     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2282020695     Document Type: Article

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