Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for acromegaly: Remission using modern criteria, complications, and predictors of outcome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2732-2740

  Jane Jr , John A ^a   Starke, Robert M ^a   Elzoghby, Mohamed A ^a   Reames, Davis L ^a   Payne, Spencer C ^b   Thorner, Michael O ^a   Marshall, John C ^a   Laws Jr , Edward R ^d   Vance, Mary Lee ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUATION; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052517177     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-0554     Document Type: Article

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