Pituitary disease: Presentation, diagnosis, and management

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Levy, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANTITHYROID AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DOPAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN; ETOMIDATE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; MITOTANE; PEGVISOMANT; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; VASOPRESSIN; DESMOPRESSIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LEVOTHYROXINE;

ACROMEGALY; CANCER SCREENING; CARNEY COMPLEX; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERPITUITARISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTINOMA; RATHKE CLEFT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPHENOIDAL ADENOMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILIAL CANCER; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; SYNDROME;

EID: 4344698378     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.045740     Document Type: Review

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