The role of stereotactic radiosurgery in the multimodal management of growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Stapleton, Christopher J ^a,b   Liu, Charles Y ^a,c   Weiss, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SECRETION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78049417162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.7.FOCUS10159     Document Type: Article

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