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Chapter 10 - An Introduction to Sellar Masses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2018

Michael Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
S. Ali Imran
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
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Clinical Neuroendocrinology
An Introduction
, pp. 171 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Babic, N, Yeo K-T, J, Hannoush, Z C & Weiss, R E. (2017). Endocrine testing protocols: hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. www.endotext.orgGoogle Scholar

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