Modern imaging of pituitary adenomas

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-120

  Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Schlaffer, Sven Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84926092787     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000318500     Document Type: Review

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