The pituitary gland: Changes on MR images during the 1st year after delivery

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 999-1004

  Miki, Yukio ^a   Kataoka, Milliam L ^a   Shibata, Toshiya ^a   Haque, Tabassum L ^a   Kanagaki, Mitsunori ^a   Shimono, Taro ^a   Okada, Tomohisa ^a   Hiraga, Akira ^a   Nishizawa, Sadahiko ^a   Ueda, Hiroyuki ^a   Rahman, Mahbubur ^b   Konishi, Junji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CALCULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21044436108     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353040243     Document Type: Article

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