Lymphocytic hypophysitis: Disease spectrum and approach to diagnosis and therapy

Pituitary

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-45

  Rivera, Juan Andres ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hypophysitis; Hypopituitarism; Lymphocytic hypophysitis; Pituitary inflammation

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES;

EID: 33646682415     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-006-6598-z     Document Type: Review

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