Identification of a silent pituitary somatotropic adenoma based on a paradoxic response of growth hormone on a thyrotropin-releasing hormone or gonadotropin-releasing hormone provocation test

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 286-288

  Matsuno, Akira ^a,b,c   Ogino, Yoshio ^a,b,c   Katayama, Haruko ^a,b,c   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^a,b,c   Nagashima, Tadashi ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Japan)

^b Second Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amenorrhea; Galactorrhea; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Provocation test; Silent pituitary somatotropic adenoma; Thyrotropin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROTIRELIN;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVULATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST;

EID: 0035097501     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2001.109396     Document Type: Article

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1. Expression of plurihormonal mRNAs in somatotrophic adenomas detected using a nonisotopic in situ hybridization method: Comparison with lactotrophic adenomas
2. Application of confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) to visualize prolactin (PRL) and PRL mRNA in the normal and estrogen-treated rat pituitary glands using non-fluorescent probes