Plasma pituitary hormone levels in severe trauma with or without head injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 1368-1374

  Chiolero R ^a   Lemarchand, Th ^a   Schutz, Y ^a   De Tribolet, N ^a   Felber, J P ^a   Freeman, J ^a   Jequier, E ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

BLOOD LEVEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PITUITARY HORMONES, ANTERIOR; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0023707576     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198809000-00011     Document Type: Article

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