An unusual association of a sellar gangliocytoma with a prolactinoma

Pituitary

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-87

  Serri, Omar ^a   Berthelet, France ^a   Bélair, Manon ^a   Vallette, Sophie ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^b  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gangliocytoma; Pituitary; Prolactinoma

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; CORTISONE ACETATE; DESMOPRESSIN; ESTROGEN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROLACTIN; QUINAGOLIDE;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTINOMA; RARE DISEASE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ENKEPHALINS; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; PROLACTINOMA; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 38649105527     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-007-0022-1     Document Type: Article

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