The empty sella

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-342

  Naing, Soe ^a   Frohman, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF rhinorrhea; Headache; Hypopituitarism; Increased intracranial pressure; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary infarction

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEADACHE; HERNIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; HUMANS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547122206     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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