Treatment of acromegaly by endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery: Surgical experience in 214 cases and cure rates according to current consensus criteria - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1467-1477

  Hazer, Derya Burcu ^a   Işik, Serhat ^b   Berker, Dilek ^b   Güler, Serdar ^c   Gürlek, Alper ^d   Ÿucel, Taşkin ^d   Berker, Mustafa ^d  

^a MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Switzerland)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Endoscopic pituitary surgery; Pituitary adenoma; Remission

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSENSUS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOCORTISOLEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SINUSITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

EID: 84889239338     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.8.JNS13224     Document Type: Article

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