Growth Hormone-secreting Pituitary Adenomas in Childhood and Adolescence: Features and Results of Transnasal Surgery
- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 45 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199907000-00001
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:. Pituitary tumors causing gigantism are rare in childhood and adolescence. In a review of 2367 patients with pituitary adenomas who were treaKeywords
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