Increased incidence of neoplasia in patients with pituitary adenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 441-445

  Popovic, V ^a,c   Damjanovic, S ^a   Micic, D ^a   Nesovic, M ^a   Djurovic, M ^a   Petakov, M ^a   Obradovic, S ^a   Zoric, S ^a   Simic, M ^a   Penezic, Z ^a   Marinkovic, J ^b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA;

EID: 15444340668     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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