Pituitary Adenomas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789535100416)

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.

Author: Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
ISBN-10: 9535100416
ISBN-13: 9789535100416
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2012
Pages: 100
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.31d