Intracranial Metastasis of Pituitary Adenoma: A Case Report

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-284

  Taya, Keisuke ^a   Terao, Tohru ^a   Nakazaki, Hiromichi ^a   Sawauchi, Satoshi ^a   Numoto, Robert Tomohiko ^a   Murakami, Shigeyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoshitaro ^b   Hashimoto, Takuo ^c   Abe, Toshiaki ^d  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Akiba Hospital   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dural metastases; Malignant transformation; MIB 1; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DURA MATER; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; RADIATION DOSE; RARE DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADENOMA; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DURA MATER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2442620388     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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