Ectopic pituitary adenoma in the spheno-orbital region

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-137

  Wang, Hao ^a   Yu, Wenhua ^a   Zhang, Zuyong ^a   Xu, Wei ^b   Zhang, Fulin ^b   Bao, Weimin ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GELATIN SPONGE; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE DURATION; ECTOPIC PITUITARY ADENOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE MOVEMENT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHENOID SINUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADENOMA; AGED; CHORISTOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL SPACE; EXOPHTHALMOS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; ORBIT; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953651458     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e3181c5d1a2     Document Type: Article

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