The role of birth injury and the consequences of inadequately treated hypogonadism in longstanding panhypopituitarism

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 583-586

  Wettstein, Markus ^b   Diez, Luis F ^b   Twohig, Michael ^b   Abourizk, Nicolas N ^a  

^a SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BIRTH INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0030254850     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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