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Clinical Case Seminar. Peculiar prolactinomas in patients with pituitary developmental gene mutations: from an adult endocrinologist perspective.
Hormones (Athens, Greece) - 1 Jan 2000
Doknic Mirjana, Pekic Sandra, Civcic Milorad, Popovic Vera
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CONTEXT: Congenital hypopituitarism is a syndrome which is associated with single or multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies. Mutations in a number of developmental genes have been linked to combined pituitary hormone deficiencies, the most common being mutation in the pituitary homeobox protein prophet of the Pit 1 gene (PROP1). PROP1 exhibits DNA-binding and transcriptional activities. On magnetic resonance...
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