Pituitary magnetic resonance imaging for sellar and parasellar masses: Ten-year experience in 2598 patients

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1633-1641

  Famini, Pouyan ^a   Maya, Marcel M ^a   Melmed, Shlomo ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 79956335526     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-0168     Document Type: Article

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