Pituitary stalk lesions

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 339-345

  Rupp, Demetra ^a   Molitch, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Hyperprolactinemia; Hypopituitarism; Infundibulum; Pituitary stalk

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOTROPIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; STREPTOMYCIN; THYROTROPIN; VINBLASTINE;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GERM CELL TUMOR; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS STALK LESION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFUNDIBULUM METASTASIS; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHOCYTIC HYPOPHYSITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFUNDIBULONEUROHYPOPHYSITIS; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PITUITARY HYPOPLASIA; PITUITARY STALK INTERRUPTION SYNDROME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SEPTOOPTIC DYSPLASIA; SHORT STATURE; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GERMINOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 55249084214     PISSN: 1752296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MED.0b013e3283050844     Document Type: Review

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