Transsphenoidal surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas in patients aged 80 years or older

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 269-277

  Yunoue, Shunji ^a   Tokimura, Hiroshi ^a   Tominaga, Atsushi ^b   Fujio, Shingo ^a   Karki, Prasanna ^a   Usui, Satoshi ^b   Kinoshita, Yasuyuki ^b   Habu, Mika ^a   Moinuddin, F M ^a   Hirano, Hirofumi ^a   Arita, Kazunori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eighty years old or over; Elderly; Pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897100021     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0509-3     Document Type: Article

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