Pituitary stone - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 383-386

  Tamaki, Tomonori ^a   Takumi, Ichirou ^a   Kitamura, Takayuki ^a   Yoshiyuki Osamura, R ^b   Teramoto, Akira ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PROTIRELIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY;

EID: 0033866216     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.383     Document Type: Article

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