A case of active acromegalic woman with a marked increase in serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels after delivery

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-120

  Okada, Yosuke ^a   Morimoto, Isao ^a,b   Ejima, Kuniaki ^a   Yoshida, Kohji ^a   Kashimura, Masamichi ^a   Fujihira, Takashi ^a   Eto, Sumiya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; GH; Insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF 1); Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM;

EID: 0030941436     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.44.117     Document Type: Article

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