Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 105, Issue 2 , Pages 172-176 , 2006

Neuropsychiatric Disturbances and Hypopituitarism After Traumatic Brain Injury in an Elderly Man

  • Yi-Cheng Chang
    • ,
  • Fen-Yu Tseng

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Fen-Yu Tseng, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  • Jui-Chang Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Center for Optoelectronic Biomedicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 25 January 2005 ,Revised 9 March 2005 ,Accepted 12 April 2005.

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PII: S0929-6646(09)60341-7

doi: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60341-7

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 105, Issue 2 , Pages 172-176 , 2006

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