A Candidate Case for Lymphocytic Infundibulo-Neurohypophysitis Mimicking a Neurohypophysial Tumor

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-297

  Tsujii, Satoru ^a,c   Takeuchi, Juji ^b   Koh, Makoto ^a   Mizuta, Masatoshi ^a   Azuma, Yoshie ^a   Oishi, Mariko ^a   Akazawa, Yoshiharu ^a   Kuzuya, Hideshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neurohypophysis; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031112227     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.293     Document Type: Article

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