Clinically non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas in the elderly

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-40

  Del Monte, Patrizia ^a   Foppiani, Luca ^a   Ruelle, Antonio ^a   Andrioli, Giancarlo ^a   Bandelloni, Roberto ^a   Quilici, Paolo ^a   Prete, Camilla ^a   Palummeri, Ernesto ^a   Marugo, Alessandro ^a   Bernasconi, Donatella ^a  

^a GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hypopituitarism; Non functioning pituitary macroadenomas; Old age; Post surgical outcome; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; CORTICOTROPIN; DESMOPRESSIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROSECRETION; NEUROSURGERY; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 34047234426     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03325208     Document Type: Article

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