Giant Pituitary Adenomas: Surgical Outcomes of 50 Cases Operated on by the Endonasal Endoscopic Approach

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages e281-e290

  Gondim, Jackson A ^a   Almeida, João Paulo C ^b   Albuquerque, Lucas Alverne F ^c   Gomes, Erika F ^a   Schops, Michele ^d  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE FORTALEZA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte ^*  (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Endoscopy; Giant; Pituitary; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

CABERGOLINE; OCTREOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENINGITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROLACTINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ENDOSCOPY; GIANT; PITUITARY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908241192     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.08.028     Document Type: Review

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