Sheehan's syndrome

Pituitary

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 181-188

  Keleştimur, Fahrettin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Empty sella; Hypopituitarism; Lymphocytic hypophysitis; Pregnancy; Sheehan's syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FLUDROCORTISONE; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; THYROTROPIN; HORMONE;

AMENORRHEA; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; ISCHEMIA; LACTATION; MENSTRUATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC CARE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA; TISSUE NECROSIS; BLOOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RADIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY GLAND; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 3142743728     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PITU.0000023425.20854.8e     Document Type: Review

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