Radiation-induced hypopituitarism.
The hypothalamic-pituitary unit is a particularly radiosensitive region in the central nervous system. As a consequence, hypopituitarism commonly develops after radiation treatments for sellar and parasellar neoplasms, extrasellar brain tumours, head and neck tumours, and following whole body irradi...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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