The natural course of non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-224

  Dekkers, O M ^a   Hammer, S ^a   de Keizer, R J W ^a   Roelfsema, F ^a   Schutte, P J ^a   Smit, J W A ^a   Romijn, J A ^a   Pereira, A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ADENOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

ADENOMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33947722840     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.02334     Document Type: Article

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