Non-functioning pituitary adenomas: Endocrinological and clinical outcome after transsphenoidal and transcranial surgery

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 323-327

  Wichers Rother, Maria ^a,b   Hoven, S ^a   Kristof, R A ^a   Bliesener, N ^a   Stoffel Wagner, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Endocrine outcome; Hormone replacement therapy; NF pituitary adenomas; Transcranial surgery; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON FUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMATIC CELL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; TRANSCRANIAL SURGERY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISION;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SPHENOID BONE; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THYROID HORMONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042805482     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-820914     Document Type: Article

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