Surgical management of adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting macroadenomas: Outcome and challenges in patients with Cushing's disease or Nelson's syndrome

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 825-830

  De Tommasi, Claudio ^b   Vance, Mary Lee ^b   Okonkwo, David O ^b   Diallo, Alfa ^b   Laws Jr , Edward R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone secreting adenoma; Cushing disease; Macroadenoma; Nelson syndrome; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NELSON SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NELSON SYNDROME; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32044452009     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.103.5.0825     Document Type: Article

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