Which patient requires neuroendocrine assessment following traumatic brain injury, when and how?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-20

  Glynn, Nigel ^a   Agha, Amar ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870868910     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12010     Document Type: Article

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