Pituitary apoplexy in the magnetic resonance imaging era: Clinical significance of sphenoid sinus mucosal thickening

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 892-898

  Liu, James K ^a   Couldwell, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary apoplexy; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; REVIEW; SPHENOID SINUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR BLEEDING;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744757345     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.6.892     Document Type: Review

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