Gender differences in presentation and outcome of nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 564-570

  Caputo, Carmela ^a   Sutherland, Tom ^a   Farish, Stephen ^b   McNeill, Peter ^a   Ng, Kong W ^a   Inder, Warrick J ^a,c,d  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INCIDENTALOMA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875145098     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12009     Document Type: Review

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