Complications and death among elderly patients undergoing pituitary tumour surgery

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-368

  Grossman, Rachel ^a   Mukherjee, Debraj ^a   Chaichana, Kaisorn L ^a   Salvatori, Roberto ^a   Wand, Gary ^a   Brem, Henry ^a   Chang, David C ^a   Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955737630     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03813.x     Document Type: Article

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