Acute pancreatitis caused by excessive use of growth hormone in a 40-year-old man

Pancreas

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-

  Rutten, Jan Paul ^a   Poeze, Martijn ^a   Dejong, Cornelis H C ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE; ANDROGEN;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; BACK; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MUSCLE GROWTH; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; PANCREATITIS; PATHOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANDROGENS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; PANCREATITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 45549100260     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MPA.0000311843.42807.4e     Document Type: Letter

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