Silent or subclinical corticotroph pituitary macroadenoma transforming into cushing disease: 11-year follow-up

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Melcescu, Eugen ^a   Gannon, Anthony W ^a   Parent, Andrew D ^a   Fratkin, Jonathan F ^a   Nicholas, William C ^a   Koch, Christian A ^a   Galhom, Ayman ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LETTER; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT CORTICOTROPH ADENOMA; SPHENOID SINUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84871947959     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182750850     Document Type: Letter

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