Sellar lesion: Not always a pituitary adenoma

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-270

  Rao, Shalinee ^a   Rajkumar, Aarthi ^a   Kuruvilla, Sarah ^a  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Granulomatous hypophysitis; Pituitary gland; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; GLUCOSE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SELLA TURCICA; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TUBERCULOUS HYPOPHYSITIS;

ADENOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS, ENDOCRINE;

EID: 46949102043     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.41688     Document Type: Article

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