A prospective analysis of 151 cases of patients with acromegaly operated by one neurosurgeon: a follow-up of more than 23 years

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-31

  Abbassioun, K ^a   Amirjamshidi, M ^a   Mehrazin, A ^a   Khalatbary, I ^b   Keynama, M ^b   Bokai, H ^b   Abdollahi, M ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Arad General Hospital   (Iran)

^c National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute Tehran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Growth hormone; Pituitary adenoma; Third world; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IRRADIATION; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPITUITARISM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROLACTIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745190494     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.11.063     Document Type: Article

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