Isolated pituitary granuloma by atypical Mycobacterium in a nonimmunosuppressed woman

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-126

  Florakis, Dimos ^a   Kontogeorgos, George ^a   Anapliotou, Margarita ^b   Mazarakis, Nikos ^a   Richter, Elvira ^d   Bruèck, Wolfgang ^c   Piaditis, George ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PARAFFIN; PROLACTIN; TUBERCULIN;

ABSCESS; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GONADAL DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFUNDIBULUM; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; NAUSEA; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; STAINING; THYROID FUNCTION; VOMITING;

ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036151129     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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