Double Pituitary Adenoma —Two Case Reports—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 818-821

  Kannuki, Seiji ^a   Matsumoto, Keizo ^a   Sano, Toshiaki ^b   Shintani, Yasumi ^c   Bando, Hiroshi ^c   Saito, Shiro ^c  

^a Department of Neurological Surgery ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

double pituitary adenoma; multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1; pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADENOMA; ADULT; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029857298     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.818     Document Type: Article

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