The natural history of surgically treated but radiotherapy-naïve nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 709-714

  O'Sullivan, Eoin P ^a   Woods, Conor ^a   Glynn, Nigel ^a   Behan, Lucy Ann ^a   Crowley, Rachel ^a   O'Kelly, Patrick ^a   Smith, Diarmuid ^a   Thompson, Chris J ^a   Agha, Amar ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349653760     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03583.x     Document Type: Article

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