Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma
"Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A pituitary tumor that secretes GROWTH HORMONE. In humans, excess HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE leads to ACROMEGALY.
| Descriptor ID |
D049912
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.470.035.415 C04.588.322.609.292 C10.228.140.617.738.675.299 C19.344.609.292 C19.700.734.292
|
| Concept/Terms |
Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma- Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma
- GH-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma
- GH Secreting Pituitary Adenoma
- GH-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas
- Pituitary Adenomas, GH-Secreting
- Pituitary Adenoma, GH-Secreting
- Pituitary Adenoma, GH Secreting
- Pituitary Growth Hormone-Secreting Adenoma
- Pituitary Growth Hormone Secreting Adenoma
- Somatotroph Adenoma
- Adenoma, Somatotroph
- Adenomas, Somatotroph
- Somatotroph Adenomas
- Acromegaly Due To Pituitary Adenoma
- Pituitary Adenoma, Growth Hormone-Secreting
- Pituitary Adenoma, Growth Hormone Secreting
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma" by people in this website by year, and whether "Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma" by people in Profiles.
-
Fusion of sacroiliac joints in acromegaly: a challenging finding. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2020 Apr 01; 59(4):898.
-
Absence of immunostaining for growth hormone in a subset of patients with acromegaly. Pituitary. 2014 Apr; 17(2):103-8.
-
Radiation treatment strategies for acromegaly. Neurosurg Focus. 2010 Oct; 29(4):E12.