The causes of hypopituitarism in the absence of abnormal pituitary imaging

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-24

  Wilson, V ^a   Mallipedhi, A ^a   Stephens, J W ^a   Redfern, R M ^a   Price, D E ^a  

^a MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HEAD INJURY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; KALLMANN SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTIC HYPOPHYSITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENINGITIS; NEURORADIOLOGIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THYROTROPIN DEFICIENCY; VASOPRESSIN DEFICIENCY; WATER DEPRIVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905782157     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hct193     Document Type: Article

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