Incidence and clinical significance of elevated macroprolactin levels in patients with hyperprolactinemia

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-280

  Alfonso, Abel ^a   Rieniets, Kimberly I ^a   Vigersky, Robert A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN, POLYMERIC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PREVALENCE; PROLACTIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748069476     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.12.3.275     Document Type: Article

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