Macroprolactinemia in a Patient with Invasive Macroprolactinoma: A Case Report and Minireview
Background. Macroprolactin, the high-molecular prolactin isoform, is considered to be an inactive in vivo product with extrapituitary origin. Patients with macroprolactinemia are usually asymptomatic, with negative pituitary imaging. Based on these data, most authors do not recommend treatment and l...
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Main Authors: | Atanaska Elenkova, Zdravka Abadzhieva, Nikolai Genov, Vladimir Vasilev, Georgi Kirilov, Sabina Zacharieva |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2013-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Endocrinology |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/634349 |
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