Sheehan's syndrome of more than 30 years' duration: An endocrine and MRI study of 6 cases

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 451-458

  Otsuka, Fumio ^c   Kageyama, Jingo ^a   Ogura, Toshio ^a   Hattori, Teruhiko ^b   Makino, Hirofumi ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antipituitary antibody; Empty sella; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sheehan's syndrome; Thyroid autoantibody; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; ARGIPRESSIN; CELL ANTIBODY; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SODIUM; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPITUITARISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSMOLALITY; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031752470     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.45.451     Document Type: Article

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