Pitfalls in pituitary diagnosis: Peculiarities of three cases

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-139

  Glezer, A ^a   D'Alva, C B ^a   Salgado, L R ^a   Musolino, N R ^a   Serafini, P ^b   Vieira, J G ^c   Bronstein, M D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Clínica Huntington and Endocrinology Section   (Brazil)

^c Fleury   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACROGOL; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASE REPORT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIBIDO; MENSTRUATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVULATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SELLA TURCICA;

ADENOMA; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN;

EID: 0036067034     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01567.x     Document Type: Article

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