In vivo assessment of pituitary volume with magnetic resonance imaging and systematic stereology: Relationship to dexamethasone suppression test results in patients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 63-70

  Axelson, David A ^a   Doraiswamy, P Murali ^a   Boyko, Orest B ^a   Escalona, P Rodrigo ^a   McDonald, William M ^a   Ritchie, James C ^a   Patterson, Linda J ^a   Ellinwood Jr , Everett H ^a   Nemeroff, Charles B ^a   Krishnan, K Ranga Rama ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cortisol; Depression; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026676182     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1781(92)90070-J     Document Type: Article

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