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Other resources for patients with pituitary tumors

• MGH Neuroendocrine Clinical Center Bulletin Archive
  • Stereotactic Proton Irradiation of Pituitary Adenomas.
  • Acromegaly: Complications and Therapeutic Update.
  • Prolactinomas Resistant to Standard Dopamine Agonists Respond to Chronic Cabergoline Treatment.
  • Pituitary Irradiation is Ineffective in Normalizing Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 in Patients with Acromegaly.
  • Long-term Mortality and Morbidity after Transsphenoidal Surgery
  • Cabergoline - A New Dopamine Agonist for the Therapy of Prolactinoma
  • Headaches and Pituitary Tumors
  • Management of Recurrent Pituitary Adenomas
  • Indications for Treatment of Microprolactinomas: An Update
  • Clinical Uses of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in the Evaluation of Patients with Cushing's Syndrome
  • Medical Management of Acromegaly with Octreotide
  • Advances in Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults
  • Surgical Mangement of Cushing's Disease
  • Major Diagnostic Advance: Bilateral Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling in Cushing's Syndrome
  • Clinically Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas: Characterization and Diagnosis
• A listing of some common symtoms of pituitary adenomas
• The Hormone Foundation
• Pituitary Tumor Network Association Homepage
• NIH's PDQ
  • Pituitary tumor: Patient/Family Information
  • Pituitary tumor: Information for Physicians
  • In Spanish: Tumor de la glandula pituitaria from Ask NOAH
• National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Cushing's Syndrome
  • Acromegaly
  • Prolactinoma
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia--Type 1
• Oncolink: Pituitary Cancer
• Information on bromocryptine (Parlodel)
• Information on Octreotide
• HIV and Metabolism

Patient Stories

• A Non-secreting Pituitary 'Tumor'; a Patient's Account by Mary Lou Jepsen (mlj@cs.brown.edu)
• Cushing's Disease; a patient's story on-line.

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