Microsurgical treatment for giant and irregular pituitary adenomas in a series of 54 consecutive patients

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 636-648

  Xue Fei, Shou ^a   Yong Fei, Wang ^a   Shi Qi, Li ^a   Jing Song, Wu ^a   Yao, Zhao ^a   Ying, Mao ^a   Liang Fu, Zhou ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Giant; Irregular; Microneurosurgery; Pituitary adenoma; Surgical approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHENOID; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ZYGOMA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56549108704     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690802346083     Document Type: Article

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