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Does the Pituitary Gland Volume Change in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?

Sezen Bozkurt Koseoglu1, Funda Dinc Elibol2

  • 1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Mugla Sitki Kocman Training and Research Hospital, Mugla, Turkey.

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation
|May 16, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Magnetic resonance imagingPituitary glandPolycystic ovary syndrome

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