Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary adenomas: A review of the literature and our experience

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 185-205

  Sheehan, Jason P ^a   Jagannathan, Jay ^a   Pouratian, Nader ^a   Steiner, Ladislau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; CUSHING DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACROMEGALY; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644629730     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000091581     Document Type: Review

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