Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction after irradiation of nonpituitary brain tumors in adults

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6355-6360

  Agha, Amar ^a   Sherlock, Mark ^a   Brennan, Sinead ^b   O'Connor, Stephen A ^a   O'Sullivan, Eoin ^a   Rogers, Bairbre ^a   Faul, Clare ^b   Rawluk, Daniel ^a   Tormey, William ^a   Thompson, Christopher J ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CORTICOTROPIN; ETOPOSIDE; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; PROLACTIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THYROTROPIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPROLINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY DYSFUNCTION; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL IRRADIATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROTROPIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28744436684     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-1525     Document Type: Article

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