The use of β-subunits of gonadotrophin hormones in the follow-up of clinically non-functioning pituitary tumours

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-190

  Greenman, Yona ^a   Tordjman, Karen ^a   Sömjen, Dalia ^a   Reider Groswasser, Irith ^a   Kohen, Fortune ^b   Ouaknine, George ^a   Stern, Naftali ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTIRELIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031829101     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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