Giant cell granulomatous hypophysitis manifesting as an intrasellar mass with unilateral ophthalmoplegia

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 766-770

  Inoue, Takuya ^a,c   Kaneko, Yoichi ^a   Mannoji, Hiromichi ^a   Fukui, Masashi ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Giant cell granuloma; Ophthalmoplegia; Pituitary gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELL GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPHYSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, GIANT CELL; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030707755     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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