Symptomatic pituitary metastases from renal cell carcinoma

Pituitary

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-259

  Gopan, Thottathil ^a   Toms, Steven A ^a   Prayson, Richard A ^a   Suh, John H ^a   Hamrahian, Amir H ^a   Weil, Robert J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary metastasis; Radiotherapy; Renal cell carcinoma; Sellar mass; Transsphenoidal surgery; Vascular flow voids

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; AXITINIB; CC 2013; CORTICOTROPIN; DESMOPRESSIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERFERON; LENALIDOMIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROLACTIN; THALIDOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETHARGY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPSIA; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35848935425     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-007-0047-5     Document Type: Article

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