MR imaging of the pituitary gland in children and young adults with congenital combined pituitary hormone deficiency associated with PROPI mutations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 555-559

  Fofanova, Olga ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^b   Kinoshita, Ei Ichi ^b   Vorontsov, Alexander ^c   Vladimirova, Veronika ^c   Dedov, Ivan ^a,c   Peterkova, Valentina ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^b  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ENDOCRINOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033971815     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.174.2.1740555     Document Type: Article

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