Pituitary dysfunction after blast traumatic brain injury: The UK BIOSAP study

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 527-536

  Baxter, David ^a,b   Sharp, David J ^a   Feeney, Claire ^a,c   Papadopoulou, Debbie ^c   Ham, Timothy E ^a   Jilka, Sagar ^a   Hellyer, Peter J ^a   Patel, Maneesh C ^c   Bennett, Alexander N ^d   Mistlin, Alan ^d   McGilloway, Emer ^d   Midwinter, Mark ^b,e   Goldstone, Anthony P ^a,c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BLAST INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPHIN DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKULL FRACTURE; SOLDIER; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890127800     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.23958     Document Type: Article

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