Ectopic macroprolactinoma mimicking a chordoma: A case report

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-122

  Ballaux, D ^a   Verhelst, J ^a   Pickut, B ^a,b   De Deyn, P P ^a,b   Mahler, C ^a  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PROLACTIN; THYROID HORMONE; TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; CLIVUS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; PROLACTINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ERGOLINES; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROLACTINOMA; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032892797     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/erc.0.0060117     Document Type: Article

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