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Is autoimmune pituitary disease underdiagnosed?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism volume 3, pages 678–679 (2007)Cite this article

boxed-textManetti L et al. (2007) Prevalence and functional significance of antipituitary antibodies in patients with autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid diseases. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92: 2176–2181

Autoimmune involvement of the pituitary gland should be suspected in patients with AITD, particularly those for whom symptomatic relief is not achieved with thyroid hormone replacement alone

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The synopsis was written by Vicky Heath, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice. Research in the author's laboratory is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Cancer Society.

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