Endocrine findings in patients with optico-hypothalamic gliomas

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 162-167

  Martinez R ^a,b   Honegger, J ^a   Fahlbusch, R ^a   Buchfelder, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Endocrine deficiency; Optico hypothalamic glioma; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; RELEFACT; TESTOSTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OPTICOHYPOTHALAMIC GLIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038319016     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39788     Document Type: Article

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