Isolated Partial Growth Hormone Deficient Short Stature with Syringomyelia not Associated with Birth Injury

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 674-677

  Koga, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Abe, Tomoko ^c   Noriyuki, Hideki ^a,b   Iwatani, Noritaka ^d   Otsuka, Takako ^d  

^a Kenwakai Otemachi Hospital   (Japan)

^b Komonji Hospital   (Japan)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arnold chiari malformation; Gene analysis; Hypopituitarism; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Midline anomaly syndrome

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SCOLIOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYRINGOMYELIA;

FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; SCOLIOSIS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0032132485     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.674     Document Type: Article

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