Spontaneous remission of functioning pituitary adenomas without hypopituitarism following infarctive apoplexy: Two case reports

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-123

  Nishioka, Hiroshi ^a   Haraoka, Jo ^a   Miki, Tamotsu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary apoplexy; Pituitary infarction; Prolactinoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; GADOLINIUM; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROLACTINOMA; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 15744386729     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.52.117     Document Type: Article

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