Long-term treatment with bromocriptine of a plurihormonal pituitary adenoma secreting thyrotropin, growth hormone and prolactin

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 159-165

  Shimatsu, Akira ^a   Murabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakamura, Yoshio ^a   Mizuta, Haruo ^a   Ihara, Chihiro ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bromocriptine; GH; Plurihormonal pituitary adenoma; PRL; TSH; Subunit

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROLACTIN RELEASE; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032944295     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.46.159     Document Type: Article

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