Treatment of Pituitary Tumors: a Surgical Perspective

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-66

  Chandler, William F ^a,b   Barkan, Ariel L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN METASTASIS; CHORDOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CUSHING DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGIOMA; NEUROANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38349089636     PISSN: 08898529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2007.10.006     Document Type: Review

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