An audit of the diagnostic usefulness of PRL and TSH responses to domperidone and high resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the pituitary in the evaluation of hyperprolactinaemia

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-326

  Sawers, H A ^a   Robb, O J ^a   Walmsley, D ^a   Strachan, F M ^a   Shaw, J ^a   Bevan, J S ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMPERIDONE; GADOLINIUM; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030904052     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.1350956.x     Document Type: Article

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