Clinical course of a pituitary macroadenoma in the first trimester of pregnancy: Probable lymphocytic hypophysitis

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 478-481

  Ozbey N ^a   Kahraman, H ^a   Yilmaz, L ^a   Orhan, Y ^a   Sencer, E ^a   Molvalilar, Senay ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSITIS; MENINGITIS; NAUSEA; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUERPERIUM; RIGIDITY; VOMITING;

ADENOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST;

EID: 0032847050     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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