Neuroendocrine dysfunction following mild TBI: When to screen for it

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-16

  West, Therese A ^a   Sharp, Stephen ^b  

^a Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; SCREENING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY DISEASES;

EID: 84893505408     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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