High prevalence rate of pituitary incidentaloma: Is it associated with the age-related decline of the sex hormones levels?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-309

  Kastelan, Darko ^a   Korsic, Mirko ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

AGING; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; GONADOTROPH ADENOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; NEUROIMAGING; PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 34249287719     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.044     Document Type: Article

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