Long-term results of gamma knife surgery for growth hormone-producing pituitary adenoma: Is the disease difficult to cure?

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 119-123

  Kobayashi, Tatsuya ^a,b   Mori, Yoshimasa ^a   Uchiyama, Yukio ^a   Kida, Yoshihisa ^a   Fujitani, Shigeru ^a  

^a KOMAKI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA KYORITSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma knife surgery; Growth hormone producing pituitary adenoma; Insulin like growth factor

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROLACTINOMA; RADIOSURGERY; SECRETION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 13744257445     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.s_supplement.0119     Document Type: Article

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