Isolated familial somatotropinomas: Clinical features and analysis of the MEN1 gene

Pituitary

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-15

  De Menis, Ernesto ^a   Prezant, Toni R ^b,c  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

11q13; Acromegaly; Linkage analysis; MEN1; Pituitary tumor

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; OCTREOTIDE;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOSE RESPONSE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERM LINE; GIGANTISM; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INHERITANCE; INTRON; ISOLATED FAMILIAL SOMATOTROPINOMA; ITALY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOTHER; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; ONCOGENE; PARENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RELATIVE; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIBLING; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 0036462172     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022193015993     Document Type: Article

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