Pituitary incidentalomas

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 667-675

  Molitch, Mark E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adenoma; incidentaloma; pituitary; trans sphenoidal surgery; tumour

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; OCTREOTIDE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPITUITARISM; LABORATORY TEST; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMA; PROLACTINOMA; REVIEW; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ADENOMA; ALGORITHM; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INCIDENTAL FINDING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE;

ADENOMA; ALGORITHMS; AUTOPSY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 71749112758     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2009.05.001     Document Type: Review

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