Gamma knife surgery for pituitary adenomas: Factors related to radiological and endocrine outcomes: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-309

  Sheehan, Jason P ^a   Pouratian, Nader ^a   Steiner, Ladislau ^a   Laws, Edward R ^b   Vance, Mary Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma knife surgery; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH;

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551716557     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.5.JNS091635     Document Type: Article

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