Preoperative embolization and immediate removal of a giant pituitary adenoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Giant pituitary adenomas, with maximum diameter of at least 40 mm, continue to involve high surgical risks despite recent advances in microsurgical and/or endoscopic surgery. We treated a case of giant pituitary adenoma with preoperative endovascular embolization in an attempt to reduce...

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Autores principales: Omodaka, Shunsuke, Ogawa, Yoshikazu, Sato, Kenichi, Matsumoto, Yasushi, Tominaga, Teiji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5270227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28126010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2383-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5270227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28126010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2383-5

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