A nine-year-old girl with cold intolerance, visual-field defects, and a suprasellar tumor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1604-1611

  Scott, R M ^a   Hedley Whyte, E T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLD SENSATION; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0037079006     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020011     Document Type: Article

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