Presentation and surgical results of incidentally discovered nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas: Evidence for a better outcome independently of other patients' characteristics

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 735-742

  Losa, Marco ^a   Donofrio, Carmine A ^a   Barzaghi, Raffaella ^a   Mortini, Pietro ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; PATIENT SAFETY; PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICAL RESECTION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VISUAL DISORDER; ADENOMA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENTAL FINDING; ITALY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; SECRETION (PROCESS);

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROIMAGING; ODDS RATIO; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888273409     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-13-0515     Document Type: Article

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