The dialysis patient with headache and sudden hypotension: Consider pituitary apoplexy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 787-788

  De La Torre, Miguel ^a,c   Alcázar, Roberto ^a   Aguirre, Miguel ^b   Ferreras, Isabel ^a  

^a Nephrology Unit   (Spain)

^b Endocrinology Unit   (Spain)

^c Servicios de Neurologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis; Hypopituitarism, headache; Pituitary apoplexy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEADACHE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOMA; AGED; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0031910154     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.3.787     Document Type: Article

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