Use of morning serum cortisol level after transsphenoidal resection of pituitary adenoma to predict the need for long-term glucocorticoid supplementation: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 540-544

  Marko, Nicholas F ^a   Gonugunta, Vivek A ^a   Hamrahian, Amir H ^a   Usmani, Ali ^a   Mayberg, Marc R ^a,b   Weil, Robert J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; ADENOMA; BLOOD; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ADENOMA; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350516767     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.12.JNS081265     Document Type: Article

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