Pituitary apoplexy after subtotal thyroidectomy in an acromegalic patient with a large goiter

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 472-477

  Kato, Kazunobu ^a,c   Nobori, Masakazu ^a   Miyauchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Ohnisi, Motoki ^a   Yoshida, Shyoji ^a   Oya, Shigeru ^a   Tomita, Shin ^a   Kino, Tomoshige ^b  

^a ASAHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Airway obstruction; Diabetes mellitus; Thyroid goiter

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PTOSIS; REMISSION; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SECRETION; THYROIDECTOMY; VASCULARIZATION;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HEADACHE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0030155339     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.472     Document Type: Article

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