Pituitary apoplexy in non-functioning pituitary adenomas: Long term follow up is important because of significant numbers of tumour recurrences

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 501-504

  Pal, A ^a   Capatina, C ^a   Tenreiro, A P ^a   Guardiola, P D ^a   Byrne, J V ^b   Cudlip, S ^b   Karavitaki, N ^a   Wass, J A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052532405     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04068.x     Document Type: Article

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