Long-term results after microsurgery for Cushing disease: Experience with 426 primary operations over 35 years

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-18

  Hofmann, Bernd Markus ^a   Hlavac, Michal ^a   Martinez, Ramon ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Müller, Otto Albrecht ^b   Fahlbusch, Rudolf ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Rotkreuz Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cushing disease; Disease recurrence; Disease remission; Persistent disease; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; HEPARIN; KETOCONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERADRENOCORTICISM; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38149022450     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/01/0009     Document Type: Article

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