Anesthetic and critical care management of patients undergoing pituitary surgery

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 236-255

  Burton, Catherine M ^a   Nemergut, Edward C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ANESTHESIA; CUSHING DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW;

ACROMEGALY; ANESTHESIA; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644615518     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000091583     Document Type: Review

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