Selective loss of anterior pituitary volume with severe pituitary-gonadal insufficiency in poorly compliant male thalassemic patients with pubertal arrest

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 850, Issue , 1998, Pages 479-482

  Chatterjee, R ^a   Katz, M ^a   Oatridge, A ^c   Bydder, G M ^c   Porter, J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; IRON; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ATROPHY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DELAYED PUBERTY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TESTIS SIZE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

EID: 0031850662     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10527.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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