Demographic factors, outcomes, and patient access to transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease: Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 2002 to 2010

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Wilson, Daniel ^a   Jin, Diana L ^b   Wen, Timothy ^b   Carmichael, John D ^b   Cen, Steven ^b   Mack, William J ^b   Zada, Gabriel ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cushing's disease; Outcomes; Socioeconomic; Transsphenoidal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942570065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.11.FOCUS14694     Document Type: Article

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