Pituitary Adenomas
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Pituitary Adenomas

  1. 98 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pituitary Adenomas

About this book

Pituitary Adenomas is a comprehensive book about the most common pathology of the pituitary gland in the sellar region. The book chapters include epidemiology, symptoms and signs, clinical, imaging, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural pathological diagnosis, therapeutic approaches and outcome of the functional and non-functional pituitary tumors. Therapies include medications, endoscopic transphenoidal and open surgeries; radiotherapy includes gamma knife radiosurgery. Visual symptoms has important and characteristic patterns which has discussed in one specific chapter. Endocrine secretion is another characteristic in 40% of pituitary adenomas. Therefore, another chapter presents it. Stereotactic radiosurgery and endoscopic surgery both have special role in recent decades. Thus, they have considered specifically, too. Authors expect to give excellent insight in pituitary adenoma to the book readers.

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Information

Publisher
IntechOpen
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9789535100416
eBook ISBN
9789535168157
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Endocrinology & Metabolism

Table of contents

  1. Pituitary Adenomas
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Pituitary Adenomas and Ophthalmology
  5. Chapter 2 Diagnostic Imaging of the Pituitary and Parasellar Region
  6. Chapter 3 Functioning Pituitary Adenoma
  7. Chapter 4 Pituitary Adenomas – Clinico-Pathological, Immunohistochemical and Ultrastructural Study
  8. Chapter 5 Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenomas