Hemorrhagic Pituitary Adenoma Manifesting as Transient Global Amnesia: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 234-236

  Honma, Yutaka ^a   Nagao, Seigo ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hippocampus; magnetic resonance imaging; pituitary adenoma; pituitary apoplexy; prolactinoma; transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE;

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROLACTINOMA; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

AGED; AMNESIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029918296     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.234     Document Type: Article

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