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author = "Beckers, Albert"

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Effect of treatment with octreotide on the morphology of growth hormone secreting pituitary adenomas : study of 24 cases.

Description : Twenty-four acromegalic patients were treated with octreotide subcutaneously for periods of 3 to 6 weeks (group I, 12 cases) or 6 months (group II, 12 cases) before transsphenoidal surgery. Radiological studies performed in 19 patients before and at the end of this treatment period revealed no chang...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : English

Absence d'hypogonadisme chez un patient masculin avec prolactinome géant : un paradoxe clinique Absence of hypogonadism in a male patient with a giant prolactinoma: a clinical paradox.

Description : Background Impotence and decreased libido are the cardinal features of prolactinomas in males. We describe the unusual clinical, pathological and biochemical features in a male patient with a giant prolactinoma and normal gonadal function. Case Report A 57 year-old man presented with visual symptom...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Nodules de la thyroide Thyroid Nodules

Description : Thyroid nodules are commonly encountered in clinical practice. They are present in 4 to 7% of the population by neck palpation and 30 to 50% by ultrasonography. Most are benign and could be neglected by the clinician and his patient. However, 5% of nodules are malignant, requiring surgical treatment...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Caractérisation clinique et génétique des adénomes hypophysaires familiaux isolés (FIPA). Clinical and genetic characterization of FIPA (familial isolated pituitary adenomas)

Description : Pituitary adenomas are common brain tumours at autopsy and radiological series of unselected population. Historically, few epidemiologic data regarding the prevalence of clinically apparent pituitary adenomas have been available. Recently, a cross-sectional study conducted in Liege, Belgium, noted t...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Comment j'explore... Une valeur élevée de calcitonine? How do you investigate an elevated calcitonin level?

Description : This article describes a case of lung cancer with associated hypercalcitoninemia in a man with a goitre. The case raises the problem of the differential diagnosis between medullary thyroid carcinoma and a neuroendocrine neoplasm with ectopic calcitonin secretion. The article first reviews the physio...
Repository : ORBi (University of Liège)
Language(s) : French

Found 119 documents, displaying page 7 of 12