Pituitary tumors in children: Clinical analysis of 21 cases

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-398

  Mehrazin, M ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Clinical analysis; Pituitary adenomas; Pituitary apoplexy

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PTOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248634287     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0259-4     Document Type: Review

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