The importance of macroprolactinemia in the differential diagnosis of hyperprolactinemic patients;Hiperprolaktinemik hastaların ayırıcı tanısında makroprolaktineminin önemi

Turkish Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-227

  Baǧdatoǧlu, Celal ^a   Baǧdatoǧlu, Özlem Tubay ^a   Muslu, Necati ^a   Köseoǧlu, Aslihan ^a   Daǧtekin, Ahmet ^a   Polat, Gürbüz ^a   Dolgun, Habibullah ^b   Karatas, Mehmet Ali ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DISKAPI YILDIRIM BEYAZIT TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Macroprolactinemia; Prolactin; Prolactinoma

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PROLACTIN; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROLACTINOMA;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROLACTIN; PROLACTINOMA; SOLVENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149232403     PISSN: 10195149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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