Prospective evaluation of a protocol for reduced glucocorticoid replacement in transsphenoidal pituitary adenomectomy: Prophylactic glucocorticoid replacement is seldom necessary

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-35

  Wentworth, John M ^a   Gao, Nicole ^a   Sumithran, Kalpana P ^a   Maartens, Niki F ^a   Kaye, Andrew H ^a,b   Colman, Peter G ^a   Ebeling, Peter R ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL PITUITARY ADENOMECTOMY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 36949039394     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02995.x     Document Type: Article

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