How to approach endocrine assessment in severe obesity?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-167

  Seetho, Ian W ^a   Wilding, John P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; X RAY;

HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; OBESITY, MORBID; PITUITARY DISEASES;

EID: 84880076559     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12256     Document Type: Review

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