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Effect of steroid therapy in a 16-year-old girl observed for lymphocytic hypophysitis
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Affiliations- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Paediatrics, Nutrition, and Metabolic Diseases, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Radiology, MR Unit, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Keywords
hypophysitis; hypopituitarism; arginine vasopressin deficiency; pituitary stalk thickening
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Effect of steroid therapy in a 16-year-old girl observed for lymphocytic hypophysitis
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Pages
109-110
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2023-12-23
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Endokrynol Pol 2024;75(1):109-110.
Keywords
hypophysitis
hypopituitarism
arginine vasopressin deficiency
pituitary stalk thickening
Authors
Elżbieta Moszczyńska
Marta Baszyńska-Wilk
Patrycja Dasiewicz
Aleksandra Tutka
Anna Smorczewska-Kiljan
Magdalena Marszał
Iwona Pakuła-Kościesza
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