The diagnostic importance of prolactin subgroups in patients with stalk mass

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 209-210

  Bagdatoglu, C ^a,b   Ay, A ^a   Bagdatoglu, O T ^a   Ozer, C ^a   Polat, G ^a   Koksel, T ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lipoma; Macroprolactinemia; Mass lesion; Pituitary stalk; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HUMAN; INFUNDIBULUM; LIPOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SELLA TURCICA;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; LIPOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROLACTIN; SELLA TURCICA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12944324738     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-004-0382-5     Document Type: Article

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