Follow-up and long-term outcome of nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma operated by transsphenoidal surgery with intraoperative high-field magnetic resonance imaging

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2233-2243

  Berkmann, Sven ^a   Schlaffer, Sven ^a   Nimsky, Christopher ^a,b   Fahlbusch, Rudolf ^a,c   Buchfelder, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Follow up; Intraoperative MRI; Nonfunctioning adenoma; Pituitary; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR INVASION; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84920946554     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-014-2210-x     Document Type: Article

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