Clinical features of silent corticotroph adenomas

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1493-1498

  Alahmadi, Hussein ^a,b   Lee, Daniel ^a   Wilson, Jefferson R ^a   Hayhurst, Caroline ^a   Mete, Ozgur ^a   Gentili, Fred ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^a   Zadeh, Gelareh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoplexy; Non functioning adenoma; Pituitary adenoma; Recurrent tumors; Silent corticotroph adenoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE;

ACROMEGALY; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ACROMEGALY; ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865762759     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1378-1     Document Type: Article

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