Clinical-biochemical correlations in acromegaly at diagnosis and the real prevalence of biochemically discordant disease

Hormone Research

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 293-299

  Mercado, Moisés ^a   Espinosa De Los Monteros, Ana Laura ^a   Sosa, Ernesto ^a   Cheng, Sonia ^a   Mendoza, Victoria ^a   Hernández, Irma ^a   Sandoval, Carolina ^a   Guinto, Gerardo ^a   Molina, Mario ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE ESPECIALIDADES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Diabetes; Glucose intolerance; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Micromegaly

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 11244329010     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082032     Document Type: Article

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