Malignant prolactinoma: Case report and review of the literature

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 523-534

  Kars, Marleen ^a   Roelfsema, Ferdinand ^a   Romijn, Johannes A ^a   Pereira, Alberto M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; EPIDEPRIDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN P53; QUINAGOLIDE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DEATH; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMINECTOMY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZAMIDES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; PROLACTINOMA; PYRROLIDINES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750425631     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.02268     Document Type: Article

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