Prevalence of pituitary adenomas in macroprolactinemic patients may be higher than it is presumed

Endocrine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-143

  Tamer, Gonca ^a   Telci, Ayşegül ^a   Mert, Meral ^a   Uzum, Ayse Kubat ^a   Aral, Ferihan ^a   Tanakol, Refik ^a   Yarman, Sema ^a   Boztepe, Harika ^a   Colak, Nese ^a   Alagöl, Faruk ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hyperprolactinemia; Macroprolactinemia; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INFERTILITY; LABORATORY TEST; MACROPROLACTINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECIPITATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84862679958     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-011-9536-4     Document Type: Article

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