Nonhemorrhagic pituitary macroadenoma producing reversible internal carotid artery occlusion: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1245-1248

  Yaghmai, Reza ^a   Olan, Wayne J ^a   O'Malley, Sean ^a,b   Bank, William O ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid angiography; Internal carotid artery; Neuroimaging; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary apoplexy; Transsphenoidal surgery; Vascular obstruction

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADENOMA; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029945384     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199606000-00040     Document Type: Article

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