Sheehan syndrome: Clinical and laboratory evaluation of 20 cases

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 257-260

  Özkan, Yusuf ^a   Colak, Ramis ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Empty sella; Pituitary insufficiency; Sheehan syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PUERPERIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 22144490269     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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