Diabetes insipidus and blindness caused by a suprasellar tumor: Pieter Pauw's observations from the 16th century

JAMA

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 48-50

  Kivelä, Tero ^a   Pelkonen, Risto ^a   Oja, Matti ^b   Heiskanen, Olli ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN TUMOR; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR;

EID: 0032491865     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.1.48     Document Type: Article

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