Application of MR spectroscopy and treatment approaches in a patient with extrapituitary growth hormone secreting macroadenoma

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 560-564

  Kozić, Duško ^a   Medić Stojanoska, Milica ^b   Ostojić, Jelena ^a   Popović, Ljubomir ^b   Vučković, Nada ^c  

^a Institute of Oncology Sremska Kamenica   (Yugoslavia)

^b Clinical Center of Voivodina   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Extrapituitary growth hormone secreting adenoma; MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; SOMATOSTATIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROMEGALY; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 38049008931     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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