Collision sellar lesions: Experience with eight cases and review of the literature

Pituitary

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-17

  Koutourousiou, Maria ^a   Kontogeorgos, George ^a   Wesseling, Pieter ^b   Grotenhuis, Andre J ^b   Seretis, Andreas ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Collision tumors; Nonadenomatous sellar lesions; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; NEURILEMOMA; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; SARCOIDOSIS; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEURILEMMOMA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 77949275857     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-009-0190-2     Document Type: Article

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