Disease-specific impairments in quality of life during long-term follow-up of patients with different pituitary adenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 775-784

  Van Der Klaauw, Agatha A ^a   Kars, Marleen ^a   Biermasz, Nienke R ^a   Roelfsema, Ferdinand ^a   Dekkers, Olaf M ^a   Corssmit, Eleonora P ^a   Van Aken, Maarten O ^a   Havekes, Bas ^a   Pereira, Alberto M ^a   Pijl, Hanno ^a   Smit, Johannes W ^a   Romijn, Johannes A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; SOMATOSTATIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53749096115     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03288.x     Document Type: Article

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