Clinical and biochemical characteristics of patients with thyroid-stimulating hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas from one New Zealand centre

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 214-219

  Elston, M S ^a   Conaglen, J V ^a  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Pituitary adenoma; Thyroid hormone resistance; Thyrotoxicosis; TSHoma

Indexed keywords

OCTREOTIDE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTROPIN SECRETING ADENOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROTROPIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949650405     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2009.02107.x     Document Type: Article

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