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Pituitary insufficiency after operation of supratentorial intra- and extraaxial tumors outside of the sellar–parasellar region?

Recent studies investigating pituitary function after non-sellar brain tumor surgery showed that up to 38.2% of patients have pituitary insufficiency (PI). It has been assumed that the operation causes the PI, but preoperative hormone testing, which would have been necessary to prove this assumption...

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Autores principales: Wachter, Dorothee, Gondermann, Nicole, Oertel, Matthias F., Nestler, Ulf, Rohde, Veit, Böker, Dieter-Karsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21674148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10143-011-0326-5