Diagnosis, Treatment and Postoperative Results of Cushing's Disease

Overview

Journal Neurosurg Rev

Specialty Neurosurgery

Date 1985 Jan 1

PMID 2993955

Authors

N Kageyama

A Kuwayama

T Takahashi

M Negoro

K Ichihara

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Abstract

One hundred patients with Cushing's disease were operated on in Nagoya University Hospital between January 1977 and January 1984. Pituitary adenomas were found and resected in 93 cases and complete clinical remissions were observed in 89 treated by operation alone and in two additional cases by operation followed with radiotherapy. The clinical features, pre-operative endocrine data, radiological findings including high resolution CT with coronal and sagittal reconstructions, data of selective venous sampling, operative findings, tumour pathology, postoperative clinical course, postoperative endocrine results and follow-up findings are presented and discussed.

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