Endocrinology

Neuro-Oncology

Questions discussed in this category

Do you consent patients for diabetes insipidus following SRS or fractionated radiation for pituitary tumors?

My understanding is that this risk is exceedingly rare even with treatment in and around the stalk and hypothalamus.

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Is it safe to use radioactive iodine therapy for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and brain metastases?

Does it matter whether the intracranial lesions have been treated with whole brain or SRS/SRT?

3 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Neuro-oncology, 2011 Jun 10

Hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy with CyberKnife for nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma: high local control with low toxicity.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2001-12

Inflammatory cardiovascular risk markers in women with hypopituitarism.

J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.,

Body composition in adult growth hormone-deficient men, assessed by anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis.

J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.,

Bone loss is correlated to the severity of growth hormone deficiency in adult patients with hypopituitarism.

Lancet,

Premature mortality due to cardiovascular disease in hypopituitarism.

Metab. Clin. Exp.,

Serum lipid levels in growth hormone-deficient men.

J. Neurosurg., 2018 Nov 09

Hypopituitarism after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for pituitary adenomas: a multicenter, international study

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf), 2009 Jul 24

Prevalence of pituitary adenomas: a community-based, cross-sectional study in Banbury (Oxfordshire, UK).

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab,

Radiation-induced hypopituitarism after cancer therapy: who, how and when to test.

Neurosurgery, 2008-01

Predictors and incidence of central diabetes insipidus after endoscopic pituitary surgery.

Clinical neurology and neurosurgery, 2013-02

Diabetes insipidus following resection of pituitary tumors.

Ann. Endocrinol. (Paris),

Pituitary deficiency after brain radiation therapy.

Ann. Endocrinol. (Paris), 2013 Nov 25

Diabetes insipidus.

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