Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary metastases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 248-255

  Kano, Hideyuki ^a,b   Niranjan, Ajay ^a,b   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Gamma Knife; Hormone replacement; Pituitary metastases; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67749137590     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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