A prismatic case: A 31-year old man who did not miss his pituitary
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A prismatic case: A 31-year old man who did not miss his pituitary.
Combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) is a rare disorder resulting from impaired production of several pituitary hormones. This report describes the 30-year history of a patient who has apparently lived without a pituitary. The patient, born in 1976, experienced recurrent episodes of hypoglycaemia (as low as 2.9 mg/dl) in early childhood and showed elevated liver enzymes up to the age of...
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عنوان ژورنال: HORMONES
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1109-3099
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1207