Metastatic Pituitary Tumor from Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated by Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-52

  Yokoyama, Takakazu ^a   Yoshino, Atsuo ^a   Katayama, Yoichi ^a   Watanabe, Takao ^a   Kashima, Yoji ^a   Yoshikawa, Tetsuo ^a   Kawamori, Jiro ^a   Tanaka, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; Metastatic tumor; Pituitary; Pituitary metastasis; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 1042290378     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.47     Document Type: Article

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