Progressive improvement of impaired visual acuity during the first year after transsphenoidal surgery for non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma

Pituitary

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Dekkers, O M ^a   de Keizer, R J W ^a   Roelfsema, F ^a   vd Klaauw, A A ^a   Honkoop, P J ^a   van Dulken, H ^a   Smit, J W A ^a   Romijn, J A ^a   Pereira, A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Non functioning macroadenoma; Surgery; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34147168128     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-007-0007-0     Document Type: Article

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