Do the limits of serum prolactin in disconnection hyperprolactinaemia need re-definition? A study of 226 patients with histologically verified non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 524-529

  Karavitaki, Niki ^a   Thanabalasingham, Gaya ^a   Shore, Helena C A ^a   Trifanescu, Raluca ^a   Ansorge, Olaf ^b   Meston, Niki ^c   Turner, Helen E ^a   Wass, John A H ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; PROLACTINOMA; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33748767107     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02627.x     Document Type: Article

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