Sheehan syndrome in Costa Rica: Clinical experience with 60 cases

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-344

  Gei Guardia, Orlando ^a,c   Soto Herrera, Esteban ^a   Gei Brealey, Alfredo ^b   Chih Hao, Chen Ku ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTAGIOUS AGALACTIA; COSTA RICA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 79959630754     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP10145.OR     Document Type: Article

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