Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for cushing disease: Techniques, outcomes, and predictors of remission

Clinical Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 240-247

  Starke, Robert M ^a   Reames, Davis L ^a   Chen, Ching Jen ^a   Laws, Edward R ^b   Jane, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cushing; Cushing disease; Disease; Endoscopic; Remission; Secretory tumors; Surgery; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIQUORRHEA; MACROADENOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMISSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHENOID; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881220262     PISSN: 00694827     EISSN: 0148396X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31827b966a     Document Type: Article

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