'Silent' somatotropinoma

Endokrynologia Polska

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-91

  Pawlikowski, Marek ^a   Kuta, Joanna ^a   Fuss Chmielewska, Julitta ^a   Winczyk, Katarzyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

'Silent' somatotropinoma; Acromegaly; Nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICALLY NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SILENT SOMATOTROPINOMA; TRANSPHENOIDAL ADENECTOMY;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84861125657     PISSN: 0423104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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