Growth Hormone Deficiency in Elderly Patients with Hypothalamo-Pituitary Tumors

Pituitary

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-67

  Colao, Annamaria ^a   Cerbone, Gaetana ^b   Pivonello, Rosario ^b   Klain, Michele ^b   Aimaretti, Gianluca ^b   Faggiano, Antongiulio ^b   Di Somma, Carolina ^b   Salvatore, Marco ^b   Lombardi, Gaetano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

GH; GH deficiency; IGF I binding proteins; Pituitary diseases

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE I TRIMERIC CROSS LINKED PEPTIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE I TRIMERIC CROSS-LINKED PEPTIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; OSTEOCALCIN; PEPTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; URINE;

AGED; AGING; ARGININE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOCALCIN; PEPTIDES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032034429     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009923025853     Document Type: Article

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