Treatment of craniopharyngiomas in children

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-353

  Sakai, Keiichi ^a   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^a   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^a   Tada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Shigeta, Hiroaki ^b   Kobayashi, Shigeaki ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Komoro Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children; Craniopharyngioma; Outcome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042641432     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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