TESTICULAR ENLARGEMENT AND ELEVATED SERUM INHIBIN CONCENTRATIONS OCCUR IN PATIENTS WITH PITUITARY MACROADENOMAS SECRETING FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 411-423

  HESELTINE, D ^a,b,c   WHITE, M C ^a,b,c   KENDALL TAYLOR P ^a,b,c   DE KRETSER, D M ^a,b,c   KELLY, W ^a,b,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MACROADENOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS SIZE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; HUMAN; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0024462403     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1989.tb01265.x     Document Type: Article

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