Pituitary apoplexy following metastasis of bronchogenic adenocarcinoma to a prolactinoma

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-381

  Hanna, F W F ^a   Williams, O M ^a   Davies, J S ^a   Dawson, T ^b   Neal, J ^b   Scanlon, M F ^a  

^a LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CEFOTAXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PENICILLIN G; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MENINGISM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SMOKING; STEROID THERAPY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032820304     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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