Long-term outcomes after gamma knife radiosurgery for patients with a nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-293

  Gopalan, Rupa ^a   Schlesinger, David ^a   Vance, Mary Lee ^a   Laws, Edward ^b   Sheehan, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960360543     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821bc44e     Document Type: Article

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