Two rare cases of pituitary metastases from breast and kidney cancers

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 537-540

  Golkowski F ^a   Trofimiuk, M ^a   Czepko, R ^b   Buziak Bereza, M ^a   Lopatka P ^b   Adamek, D ^b   Baldys Waligorska A ^a   Huszno, B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Kidney cancer; Metastases; Pituitary tumour

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; KIDNEY CANCER; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35848947535     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-981456     Document Type: Article

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