Giant somatotrophinoma without acromegalic features: More "quiet" than "silent": Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Sidhaye, Aniket ^a   Burger, Peter ^a   Rigamonti, Daniele ^a   Salvatori, Roberto ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor 1; Somatotrophinoma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ACROMEGALY; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GIANT SOMATOTROPHINOMA; GNAS1 GENE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 18244365114     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000157961.67867.E5     Document Type: Article

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