Pituitary tumor type affects the chance of biochemical remission after radiosurgery of hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1271-1276

  Pollock, Bruce E ^a,b   Brown, Paul D ^a   Nippoldt, Todd B ^a   Young Jr , William F ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Cushing's disease; Pituitary adenoma; Prolactinoma; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HAZARD RATIO; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56849121327     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000333298.49436.0e     Document Type: Article

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