The frequency of macroprolactinemia in pregnant women and the heterogeneity of its etiologies

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 586-590

  Hattori, Naoki ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BROMOCRIPTINE; DOPAMINE; IODINE 125; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SULPIRIDE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADSORPTION; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PRECIPITATION; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN;

EID: 0030019671     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.2.586     Document Type: Article

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