Evaluation of Results of Radiation Treatment of Pituitary Chromophobe Adenomas Producing Visual Impairment
| Autor: | Malcolm Y. Colby, Hendrik J. Svien, Robert P. Gage, Thomas P. Kearns |
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| Rok vydání: | 1964 |
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Adenoma
medicine.medical_specialty Biomedical Research medicine.medical_treatment Visual impairment Vision Disorders Chromophobe cell Pituitary neoplasm Neoplasms medicine Humans Pituitary Neoplasms Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Vision test Vision Ocular Adenoma Chromophobe business.industry Vision Tests General surgery Pituitary tumors Objective method medicine.disease humanities Surgery Pituitary Irradiation Radiation therapy Cobalt Isotopes Clinical research Radioisotope Teletherapy Visual Fields medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 83:195-201 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/83.2.195 |
| Popis: | In the early years of the twentieth century, treatment of pituitary tumors was placed on a sound basis by the pioneer work of Beclere (1) and other workers in the field of radiotherapy, and by Cushing (2) and others in surgery. Since those early days there has been (to quote Dyke and Davidoff (3)) …“some tendency on the part of radiotherapeutists and neurological surgeons to show preference for their own type of therapy.” In the nearly half century since this pioneer work, the “tendency” still seems to exist, probably because even to this date no sound objective method of evaluating treatment has found general acceptance and usage. Emphasizing this point are two editorial comments from the most recent Yearbook of Radiology (4): (a). “The chronicity and variability in progression of chromophobe adenomas make evaluation of any treatment difficult…” (b) “One of the difficulties in evaluating the results of treatment of pituitary adenomas is the inability to find something to measure….” Also, as Paterson (5) ... |
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