Clinical features of nonpituitary sellar lesions in a large surgical series

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 798-807

  Valassi, Elena ^a   Biller, Beverly M K ^a   Klibanski, Anne ^a   Swearingen, Brooke ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLURRED VISION; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIVUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIPLOPIA; EPENDYMOMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; GALACTORRHEA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOCORTISOLISM; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INVERTED PAPILLOMA; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; PTOSIS; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA CYST; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SINONASAL UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; SINUSITIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 78649232408     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03881.x     Document Type: Article

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