Craniopharyngiomas in children and adults: Systematic analysis of 121 cases with long-term follow-up

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-409

  Karavitaki, N ^a   Brufani, C ^a   Warner, J T ^b   Adams, C B T ^c   Richards, P ^c   Ansorge, O ^c   Shine, B ^a   Turner, H E ^a   Wass, J A H ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DEPRESSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEMIPARESIS; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 17044424544     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02231.x     Document Type: Article

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