Postoperative assessment of the patient after transsphenoidal pituitary surgery

Pituitary

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-401

  Ausiello, John C ^a   Bruce, Jeffrey N ^a   Freda, Pamela U ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary surgery; SIADH

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CEFUROXIME; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; THYROXINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGONADISM; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROVOCATION TEST; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY;

HUMANS; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPHENOID BONE; THYROID GLAND; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 55649090775     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-008-0086-6     Document Type: Article

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