Endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: is tumor volume a key factor in determining outcome?

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-50

  Jain, Amit Kumar ^a   Gupta, Ashok Kumar ^a   Pathak, Ashis ^a   Bhansali, Anil ^a   Bapuraj, J Rajiv ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDONASAL TRANSSPHENOIDAL PITUITARY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36549017557     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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