Efficacy and Safety of Higher Dose Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Functional Pituitary Adenomas: A Preliminary Report

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 195-201

  Grant, Ryan A ^a   Whicker, Margaret ^a   Lleva, Ranee ^a   Knisely, Jonathan P S ^b   Inzucchi, Silvio E ^a   Chiang, Veronica L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

35 Gy; Gamma knife surgery; Optic apparatus; Optic nerves; Pituitary adenoma; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOSTATIN; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; PALLOR; RADIATION INJURY; RELAPSE; REMISSION; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

35 GY; GAMMA-KNIFE SURGERY; OPTIC APPARATUS; OPTIC NERVES; PITUITARY ADENOMA; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OPTIC NERVE; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908244034     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.01.127     Document Type: Review

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