Metastatic prolactinoma presenting as a cervical spinal cord tumour in multiple endocrine neoplasia type one (MEN-1) [3]

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-152

  Gordon, Michelle V ^a   Varma, Dinesh ^a   McLean, Catriona A ^a   Bittar, Richard G ^a   Burgess, John R ^b   Topliss, Duncan J ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LETTER; MALE; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PANCREAS DISEASE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; REIMPLANTATION; SPINE METASTASIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 1; PROLACTINOMA; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845610207     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02697.x     Document Type: Letter

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