Transsphenoidal surgery for cushing disease: Experience with 136 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-80

  Ciric, Ivan ^a   Zhao, Jin Cheng ^a   Du, Hongyan ^a   Findling, James W ^b   Molitch, Mark E ^c   Weiss, Roy E ^d   Refetoff, Samuel ^d   Kerr, William D ^a   Meyer, Joel ^a  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cushing disease; Immediate postoperative remission; Long term results; Statistical analysis; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856106361     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822dda2c     Document Type: Article

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