Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery for growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Hofstetter, Christoph P ^a   Mannaa, Raaid H ^b   Mubita, Lynn ^a   Anand, Vijay K ^a   Kennedy, John W ^b   Dehdashti, Amir R ^b,c   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Geisinger Clinic   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Endoscopy; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Minimally invasive procedure; Skull base; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; SECRETION; SPHENOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION INDUCTION; SPHENOID BONE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78049431872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.7.FOCUS10173     Document Type: Article

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