An uncommon cause of osteoporosis

Osteoporosis in the younger age group is an important cause of morbidity. Prolactinoma is an uncommon but reversible cause of osteoporosis. The main mechanisms of osteoporosis in prolactinoma are reduced osteoblast activity and hypogonadism. A high index of suspicion is the key in diagnosis and mana...

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Autores principales: Barnabas, Rohit, Gauda, Basavaraj Soora, Cherian, Kripa Elizabeth, Kapoor, Nitin, Asha, Hesarghatta Shyamasunder, Paul, Thomas Vizhalil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090794
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_350_17
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author Barnabas, Rohit
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description Osteoporosis in the younger age group is an important cause of morbidity. Prolactinoma is an uncommon but reversible cause of osteoporosis. The main mechanisms of osteoporosis in prolactinoma are reduced osteoblast activity and hypogonadism. A high index of suspicion is the key in diagnosis and management of this treatable entity.
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spelling pubmed-60609172018-08-08 An uncommon cause of osteoporosis Barnabas, Rohit Gauda, Basavaraj Soora Cherian, Kripa Elizabeth Kapoor, Nitin Asha, Hesarghatta Shyamasunder Paul, Thomas Vizhalil J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Osteoporosis in the younger age group is an important cause of morbidity. Prolactinoma is an uncommon but reversible cause of osteoporosis. The main mechanisms of osteoporosis in prolactinoma are reduced osteoblast activity and hypogonadism. A high index of suspicion is the key in diagnosis and management of this treatable entity. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6060917/ /pubmed/30090794 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_350_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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