Spontaneous gonadotrophin deficiency recovery in an adult patient with langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)

Pituitary

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-174

  Makras, Polyzois ^a   Papadogias, Dimitrios ^a   Kontogeorgos, George ^a   Piaditis, George ^a   Kaltsas, Gregory A ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gonadotrophin axis; Hypopituitarism; LCH

Indexed keywords

CABERGOLINE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; INFUNDIBULUM; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PREDNISOLONE; PREGNANCY; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33644534887     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-005-4537-z     Document Type: Article

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